From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Glenn Morris Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#16772: Failure in "make install" on MS-Windows Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2014 14:06:53 -0500 Message-ID: References: <63r47232fz.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1392664023 11285 80.91.229.3 (17 Feb 2014 19:07:03 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2014 19:07:03 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 16772@debbugs.gnu.org, Juanma Barranquero To: Dani Moncayo Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Feb 17 20:07:09 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 1WFTX2-00019v-An for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 17 Feb 2014 20:07:08 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:43708 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WFTX1-000343-Rn for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 17 Feb 2014 14:07:07 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:38999) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WFTWx-00033t-Qj for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 17 Feb 2014 14:07:05 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WFTWw-0003k6-NN for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 17 Feb 2014 14:07:03 -0500 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.43]:55807) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WFTWw-0003jy-JW for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 17 Feb 2014 14:07:02 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1WFTWw-0006YY-0d for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 17 Feb 2014 14:07:02 -0500 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Glenn Morris Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2014 19:07:01 +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=B16772.139266401725187 (code B ref 16772); Mon, 17 Feb 2014 19:07:01 +0000 Original-Received: (at 16772) by debbugs.gnu.org; 17 Feb 2014 19:06:57 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:56989 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1WFTWr-0006YB-1l for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Mon, 17 Feb 2014 14:06:57 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([208.118.235.10]:37793 ident=Debian-exim) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1WFTWp-0006Y3-7m for 16772@debbugs.gnu.org; Mon, 17 Feb 2014 14:06:55 -0500 Original-Received: from rgm by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WFTWo-00087S-12; Mon, 17 Feb 2014 14:06:54 -0500 X-Spook: Peking MD5 terrorist Maple Rubin Montenegro airframe X-Ran: Bf_{)2"R"vj&N"9?CM=Q#QOgVg@"oZve~<[cQb:R+3)88$lI{*S7$'D.twUv${b\,8TdGt X-Hue: cyan X-Attribution: GM In-Reply-To: (Dani Moncayo's message of "Mon, 17 Feb 2014 19:57:02 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus (www.gnus.org), GNU Emacs (www.gnu.org/software/emacs/) 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:85776 Archived-At: 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...? >> And if you try, it will say: >> >> configure: error: expected an absolute directory name for --prefix: >> ../myinstalldir > > No, it says something different: I've just tried this [...] > make install prefix=/c/tmp/dir2 GZIP_INFO= GZIP_PROG= We seem to be having a failure to communicate. "I ran make install with an absolute prefix" has no relevance to "Here's what happens if you run configure with a relative prefix" > And then I've applied the patch sent by Juanma, and tried again. This > time the installation seems to be successful, and I see the file > "/share/emacs/24.3.50/README.W32", as expected. Hooray.