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+From: David Bremner <david@tethera.net>\r
+To: Tomi Ollila <tomi.ollila@iki.fi>,\r
+ Andrew Burgess <andrew.burgess@embecosm.com>, notmuch@notmuchmail.org\r
+Subject: Re: [PATCH] configure: drop use of "pkg-config emacs"\r
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+David Bremner <david@tethera.net> writes:\r
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+> This does not play well with --prefix. As Tomi notes in\r
+> id:m2k2p2rwth.fsf@guru.guru-group.fi, people still have the option of e.g.\r
+>\r
+> % ./configure ---emacslispdir=`pkg-config emacs --variable sitepkglispdir`\r
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+I have pushed this version\r