4 files changed, 15 insertions, 13 deletions

diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index d111394a9b6..8a61bd42712 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2013-06-27  Juanma Barranquero  <lekktu@gmail.com>
+
+        * Makefile.in (install-arch-indep): Do not create directories passed
+        with --enable-locallisppath.
+
 2013-06-24  Glenn Morris  <rgm@fencepost.gnu.org>
 
         * configure.ac: Include X11/X.h when testing for Xft.h.  (Bug#14684)
diff --git a/Makefile.in b/Makefile.in
index de406453983..4afe6746cfc 100644
--- a/Makefile.in
+++ b/Makefile.in
@@ -548,13 +548,9 @@ 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.
 
-## I'm not sure creating locallisppath here serves any useful purpose.
-## If it has the default value, then the later write_subdir commands
-## will ensure all these components exist.
-## This will only do something if locallisppath has a non-standard value.
-## Is it really Emacs's job to create those directories?
-## Should we also be ensuring they contain subdirs.el files?
-## It would be easy to do, just use write_subdir.
+## 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.
 
 ## Note that we use tar instead of plain old cp -R/-r because the latter
 ## is apparently not portable (even in 2012!).
@@ -564,12 +560,6 @@ set_installuser=for installuser in $${LOGNAME} $${USERNAME} $${USER} \
 ## See also these comments from 2004 about cp -r working fine:
 ## http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/autoconf-patches/2004-11/msg00005.html
 install-arch-indep: lisp leim install-info install-man ${INSTALL_ARCH_INDEP_EXTRA}
-        umask 022 ; \
-        locallisppath='${locallisppath}'; \
-        IFS=:; \
-        for d in $$locallisppath; do \
-          ${MKDIR_P} "$(DESTDIR)$$d"; \
-        done
         -set ${COPYDESTS} ; \
         unset CDPATH; \
         $(set_installuser); \
diff --git a/etc/ChangeLog b/etc/ChangeLog
index afaf1d71676..057125ea279 100644
--- a/etc/ChangeLog
+++ b/etc/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+2013-06-27  Juanma Barranquero  <lekktu@gmail.com>
+
+        * NEWS: Mention policy change with respect to locallisppath dirs.
+
 2013-06-18  Juanma Barranquero  <lekktu@gmail.com>
 
         * NEWS: Document new Prettify Symbols mode.
diff --git a/etc/NEWS b/etc/NEWS
index 8df6153e808..f94db746926 100644
--- a/etc/NEWS
+++ b/etc/NEWS
@@ -57,6 +57,9 @@ files are in share/emacs/VERSION/etc.  (Emacs knows about all these
 directories and will find the files in there automatically; there's no
 need to set any variables due to this change.)
 
+** Directories passed to configure option `--enable-locallisppath' are
+no longer created during installation.
+
 
 * Startup Changes in Emacs 24.4