From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov@yandex.ru>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: MS-Windows build using Posix configury
Date: Thu, 16 May 2013 18:41:27 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <834ne3sziw.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87y5bfkmsz.fsf@yandex.ru>
> 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".
> 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.
And anyway, how is running from trunk/bin related to --prefix?
> > After that, use "ming-get install PACKAGE" to install the following
>
> Looks like a typo: ming -> mingw
Thanks, fixed.
> > (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.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-05-16 15:41 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 [this message]
2013-05-16 16:10 ` Dmitry Gutov
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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