From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Mario Valencia <mariovalspi@gmail.com>
Cc: 20113-done@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#20113: windows binary contains two identical executables
Date: Mon, 16 Mar 2015 05:45:19 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83bnjt1u7k.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CA+3HrJVTz8+cmx27zOmL14cm+vxAQsRoiftOgAWW+NazPfUwfQ@mail.gmail.com>
> Date: Sun, 15 Mar 2015 17:59:46 -0600
> From: Mario Valencia <mariovalspi@gmail.com>
>
> http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/emacs/windows/
> the windows binary emacs-24.4-bin-i686-pc-mingw32.zip
> contains two identical executables called emacs.exe and emacs24.4.exe
Yes. It's a feature: it allows you to later override emacs.exe with a
newer version, but keep the other one for reference, if you need it.
That's how "make install" installs the binaries.
Ideally, they should be hard links to the same data, but AFAIK zip
files on Windows don't support hard links.
IOW, not a bug; closing.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-03-16 3:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-03-15 23:59 bug#20113: windows binary contains two identical executables Mario Valencia
2015-03-16 3:45 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2015-03-16 16:37 ` Glenn Morris
2015-03-16 17:06 ` Eli Zaretskii
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