From 1bb1b50d19ce9b39cdb2d4366333e38268536abb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Glenn Morris Date: Sun, 24 Nov 2013 17:36:14 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] Makefile.in comment. --- Makefile.in | 9 ++++++--- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/Makefile.in b/Makefile.in index 4c3e261c195..1848c41a1e3 100644 --- a/Makefile.in +++ b/Makefile.in @@ -547,9 +547,12 @@ set_installuser=for installuser in $${LOGNAME} $${USERNAME} $${USER} \ ## Note that the Makefiles in the etc directory are potentially useful ## in an installed Emacs, so should not be excluded. -## We used to create locallisppath, but if it points to non-standard -## locations, is not really Emacs's job to create these directories, -## so it is no longer done. +## We always create the _default_ locallisppath directories, and +## ensure that they contain a subdirs.el file (via write_subdir). +## This is true even if locallisppath has a non-default value. +## In case of non-default value, we used to create the specified directories, +## but not add subdirs.el to them. This was a strange halfway house. +## Nowadays we do not create non-default directories. ## Note that we use tar instead of plain old cp -R/-r because the latter ## is apparently not portable (even in 2012!). -- 2.39.2