Xref: utzoo comp.editors:3428 comp.emacs:10955 Newsgroups: comp.editors,comp.emacs Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu!csn!cherokee!newsat!jbw From: jbw@maverick.uswest.com (Joe Wells) Subject: compiling Emacs without disk space (was: SUMMARY: Super-simple UNIX editor) In-Reply-To: fangchin@leland.Stanford.EDU's message of Fri, 21 Jun 91 04: 03:09 GMT Message-ID: Sender: news@cherokee.uswest.com (Telegraph Row) Nntp-Posting-Host: maverick.uswest.com Organization: U S West Advanced Technologies References: <1991Jun18.065340.25187@yenta.alb.nm.us> <17174@darkstar.ucsc.edu> <1991Jun21.012239.4994@cbfsb.att.com> <1991Jun21.040309.26255@leland.Stanford.EDU> Date: Tue, 25 Jun 1991 04:10:29 GMT In article <1991Jun21.040309.26255@leland.Stanford.EDU> fangchin@leland.Stanford.EDU (Chin Fang) writes: As a SA myself, I said "installing emacs requires root privilage" with the following understanding: Whenever BIG disk space is required, root privilage (at least stuff or source privilage) is required. I have had a quite interesting discussion with Thomas at MIT regarding this point. May I ask you, can anyone at your site write to /usr/local? can everyone at your site have more than 20 megs disk quota? (and that's just sufficient to decompress and build this thing) /tmp is usually big enough to compile Emacs. If that doesn't work, you can use symbolic links to do part of the compilation in /tmp and part in your home directory. I've built Emacs with a 3 meg quota, no problem. Compressed/fully built 386 version of emacs and friends require somewhere like four megs. You can get it a lot smaller than that if you're really pressed for space. Almost every file in the "etc" directory can be deleted, and about half of the files in the "lisp" directory. If during account checking, I find someone put a complete emacs in his/her $HOME, I would ask this user why, and why indeed. Aren't users entitled to use their space as they see fit at your site? Or are you Big Brother and do you make sure they're using the space only for administration-approved files? -- Joe Wells