From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#16772: Failure in "make install" on MS-Windows Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2014 22:36:04 +0200 Message-ID: <8361od8ojv.fsf@gnu.org> References: <63r47232fz.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1392669433 9780 80.91.229.3 (17 Feb 2014 20:37:13 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2014 20:37:13 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 16772@debbugs.gnu.org, lekktu@gmail.com To: Glenn Morris Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Feb 17 21:37:19 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1WFUwH-0001br-8G for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 17 Feb 2014 21:37:17 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:44073 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WFUwG-0003Yp-SJ for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 17 Feb 2014 15:37:16 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:57434) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WFUw8-0003Xp-HP for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 17 Feb 2014 15:37:14 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WFUw2-0006A7-MI for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 17 Feb 2014 15:37:08 -0500 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.43]:55861) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WFUw2-0006A0-Ib for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 17 Feb 2014 15:37:02 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1WFUw1-0000TN-Nd for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 17 Feb 2014 15:37:02 -0500 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Eli Zaretskii Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2014 20:37:01 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 16772 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: Original-Received: via spool by 16772-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B16772.13926693691742 (code B ref 16772); Mon, 17 Feb 2014 20:37:01 +0000 Original-Received: (at 16772) by debbugs.gnu.org; 17 Feb 2014 20:36:09 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:57043 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1WFUvA-0000S0-E5 for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Mon, 17 Feb 2014 15:36:08 -0500 Original-Received: from mtaout25.012.net.il ([80.179.55.181]:48499) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1WFUv6-0000RO-Fr for 16772@debbugs.gnu.org; Mon, 17 Feb 2014 15:36:06 -0500 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.mtaout25.012.net.il by mtaout25.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0N1500H00QA3D000@mtaout25.012.net.il> for 16772@debbugs.gnu.org; Mon, 17 Feb 2014 22:34:48 +0200 (IST) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by mtaout25.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0N1500D2PQI0E850@mtaout25.012.net.il>; Mon, 17 Feb 2014 22:34:48 +0200 (IST) In-reply-to: X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x X-Received-From: 140.186.70.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:85783 Archived-At: > From: Glenn Morris > Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2014 14:06:53 -0500 > Cc: 16772@debbugs.gnu.org, Juanma Barranquero > > Dani Moncayo wrote: > > > If you want the installation tree to go to a place that is > > different from the one specified by --prefix, say > > > > make install prefix=/where/ever/you/want > > Seems weird to me for Emacs to be recommending that. > Why would one not specify the right prefix at configure time...? The above doesn't change the configure-time prefix, as far as directories recorded in the binaries are concerned. It just installs under a different tree root. It is convenient to do that when you are preparing a binary distribution, because you then create a tree that includes a single package. The reason nt/INSTALL recommends this technique, as opposed to DESTDIR, is because that is what I use. And the reason I prefer not to use DESTDIR is that it fails on Windows if --prefix specified a Windows style absolute file name, as in --prefix=d:/usr, because you cannot prepend any non-empty string to that without producing an invalid file name.