From: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov@yandex.ru>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: MS-Windows build using Posix configury
Date: Thu, 16 May 2013 20:10:05 +0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <519504DD.1030004@yandex.ru> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <834ne3sziw.fsf@gnu.org>
On 16.05.2013 19:41, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> From: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov@yandex.ru>
>> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
>> Date: Thu, 16 May 2013 18:43:24 +0400
>>
>>> It is always preferable to use --prefix to configure Emacs for
>>> some specific location of its installed tree; the default
>>> /usr/local is not suitable for Windows.
>>
>> What's going to happen if I disregard this recommendation? Will build
>> fail?
>
> No, I don't think the build will fail. --prefix is only important for
> "make install".
If the installation will fail, maybe the prefix should default to some
reasonable directory within the Emacs tree. Would it be hard to do that?
>> I've taken a habit of running Emacs from the trunk\bin directory
>> on Windows, I just add it to PATH. Will that stop working?
>
> I don't know, I never tried such a strange arrangement with the Posix
> build. Why don't you simply run Emacs from src instead? That is how
> Emacs is supposed to be run uninstalled. Otherwise, you will be
> copying a lot of files for no good reason.
Ah, okay, thanks. That's how I run Emacs on GNU/Linux.
> And anyway, how is running from trunk/bin related to --prefix?
Technically, it's unrelated, I guess, so this was just a question from
someone who has been using the NT port for some time. AFAICT, the "make
install" step is mandatory to running Emacs built that way.
>>> (We recommend that you refrain from installing the MSYS Texinfo
>>> package, which is part of msys-base, because it might produce mixed
>>> EOL format when installing Info files. Instead, install the MinGW
>>> port of Texinfo, see the ezwinports URL below.)
>>
>> How am I supposed to do that? MinGW-Get installer only allows me to
>> check or uncheck the whole "MSYS Base" category, not the individual
>> packages.
>
> I don't know; I don't use mingw-get. Perhaps uninstall the Texinfo
> package after installing msys-base (assuming mingw-get has an
> uninstall option that can uninstall a single package)? If that
> doesn't work, I suggest to ask on the mingw-users mailing list, the
> developer of mingw-get is reading that.
Indeed, "mingw-get remove msys-texinfo" seems to have done that.
If having to remove that package manually (as opposed to not installing
it) is going to be a common situation, maybe INSTALL.MSYS should reflect
that.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-05-16 16:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 116+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-04-16 18:24 MS-Windows build using Posix configury Eli Zaretskii
2013-04-16 18:40 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-04-16 20:13 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-04-17 2:53 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-04-16 21:17 ` Glenn Morris
2013-04-17 2:56 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-04-17 6:25 ` Glenn Morris
2013-04-17 16:48 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-04-17 17:11 ` Glenn Morris
2013-04-17 17:34 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-04-17 17:53 ` Glenn Morris
2013-04-17 18:15 ` Glenn Morris
2013-04-17 18:44 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-04-17 0:42 ` Glenn Morris
2013-04-17 2:57 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-04-17 6:24 ` Glenn Morris
2013-04-17 3:33 ` Paul Eggert
2013-04-17 17:00 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-04-17 18:48 ` Paul Eggert
2013-04-17 19:15 ` Glenn Morris
2013-04-17 19:45 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-04-17 20:43 ` Glenn Morris
2013-04-17 21:19 ` Paul Eggert
2013-04-17 22:38 ` Glenn Morris
2013-04-18 0:52 ` Paul Eggert
2013-04-18 5:29 ` Glenn Morris
2013-04-18 16:11 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-04-17 6:27 ` Glenn Morris
2013-04-17 6:31 ` Glenn Morris
2013-04-18 19:32 ` Dani Moncayo
2013-04-18 20:27 ` Dani Moncayo
2013-04-18 21:20 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-04-18 22:03 ` Dani Moncayo
2013-04-19 6:34 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-04-19 20:17 ` Dani Moncayo
2013-04-20 6:34 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-04-20 7:35 ` Dani Moncayo
2013-04-20 7:56 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-04-20 17:18 ` Dani Moncayo
2013-04-20 18:30 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-04-20 20:21 ` Dani Moncayo
2013-04-21 15:12 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-04-21 19:53 ` Dani Moncayo
2013-05-01 15:30 ` Dani Moncayo
2013-05-01 16:30 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-05-01 19:30 ` Dani Moncayo
2013-05-01 19:40 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-05-02 6:43 ` Dani Moncayo
2013-05-02 16:19 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-05-02 18:40 ` Dani Moncayo
2013-05-02 19:49 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-05-02 21:42 ` Dani Moncayo
2013-05-02 21:43 ` Dani Moncayo
2013-05-03 8:50 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-05-04 10:59 ` Dani Moncayo
2013-05-04 11:04 ` Dani Moncayo
2013-05-04 11:27 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-05-04 12:00 ` Dani Moncayo
2013-05-04 12:30 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-05-07 19:36 ` Dani Moncayo
2013-05-07 21:13 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-05-07 22:04 ` Dani Moncayo
2013-05-08 17:09 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-05-08 17:32 ` Dani Moncayo
2013-05-13 12:23 ` Andy Moreton
2013-05-13 16:23 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-05-16 6:00 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-05-16 6:31 ` Paul Eggert
2013-05-16 6:56 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-05-16 7:16 ` Paul Eggert
2013-05-16 7:30 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-05-16 13:19 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-05-16 14:43 ` Dmitry Gutov
2013-05-16 15:41 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-05-16 16:10 ` Dmitry Gutov [this message]
2013-05-16 17:17 ` Dani Moncayo
2013-05-16 17:54 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-05-16 18:01 ` Dani Moncayo
2013-05-16 18:36 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-05-16 21:02 ` Dmitry Gutov
2013-05-17 6:02 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-05-16 17:18 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-05-16 21:19 ` Dmitry Gutov
2013-05-17 9:39 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-05-17 12:05 ` Dmitry Gutov
2013-05-17 13:13 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-05-17 14:03 ` Dmitry Gutov
2013-05-17 14:26 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-05-17 15:29 ` Dmitry Gutov
2013-05-17 16:05 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-05-17 16:30 ` Dmitry Gutov
2013-05-17 17:40 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-05-17 18:43 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-05-17 20:47 ` Dmitry Gutov
2013-05-18 7:18 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-05-18 8:08 ` Dmitry Gutov
2013-05-18 9:08 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-05-18 13:24 ` Dmitry Gutov
2013-05-18 14:25 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-05-18 14:28 ` Dmitry Gutov
2013-05-18 18:21 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-05-18 18:42 ` Dmitry Gutov
2013-05-18 18:53 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-05-18 19:15 ` Dmitry Gutov
2013-05-18 19:24 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-06-07 8:51 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-06-07 9:36 ` Dmitry Gutov
2013-06-07 9:56 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-05-19 6:48 ` Stephen Leake
2013-05-19 14:51 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-05-21 8:31 ` Stephen Leake
2013-05-21 17:07 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-05-21 19:36 ` Stephen Leake
2013-05-25 7:29 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-04-19 3:05 ` Ken Brown
2013-04-19 6:35 ` Eli Zaretskii
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