Hi, I like to maintain multiple copies of notmuch installed in parallel, and so make use of the --prefix=$PREFIX argument to configure. I recently tried to configure and install from master, and ran into an issue that the location selected for installing the emacs components did not respect my chosen prefix. It turns out that if pkg-config is available (it is here) then the supplied prefix is ignored, in favour of the path returned by pkg-config. To reproduce this issue, then as a non-root user, using current master: ./configure --prefix=$HOME/notmuch-prefix make make install Assumming that you have pkg-config installed, emacs installed, and the command 'pkg-config emacs --variable sitepkglispdir' returns a directory that only root can write to, then the make install above should fail. The solution I propose in the patch below is to still apply the prefix, even when pkg-config is available; pkg-config is used to select the path within the prefix directory. Would you consider this for inclusion? Thanks, Andrew --- When using pkg-config to select the path for the various emacs installation directories (the lisp and etc directories), still apply the $prefix variable. --- configure | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/configure b/configure index 440d678..4f1db82 100755 --- a/configure +++ b/configure @@ -473,7 +473,7 @@ fi if [ -z "${EMACSLISPDIR}" ]; then if pkg-config --exists emacs; then - EMACSLISPDIR=$(pkg-config emacs --variable sitepkglispdir) + EMACSLISPDIR='$(prefix)'$(pkg-config emacs --variable sitepkglispdir) else EMACSLISPDIR='$(prefix)/share/emacs/site-lisp' fi @@ -481,7 +481,7 @@ fi if [ -z "${EMACSETCDIR}" ]; then if pkg-config --exists emacs; then - EMACSETCDIR=$(pkg-config emacs --variable sitepkglispdir) + EMACSETCDIR='$(prefix)'$(pkg-config emacs --variable sitepkglispdir) else EMACSETCDIR='$(prefix)/share/emacs/site-lisp' fi -- 2.5.1