From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: MS-Windows build using Posix configury Date: Thu, 16 May 2013 18:41:27 +0300 Message-ID: <834ne3sziw.fsf@gnu.org> References: <83d2tu49lu.fsf@gnu.org> <83zjweo5dh.fsf@gnu.org> <83sj25nym2.fsf@gnu.org> <837gjhnowi.fsf@gnu.org> <8338u4o39r.fsf@gnu.org> <83zjwbkmt2.fsf@gnu.org> <83wqrfkjvo.fsf@gnu.org> <838v3qebns.fsf@gnu.org> <83wqr9csah.fsf@gnu.org> <83wqr297da.fsf@gnu.org> <83txm34g6k.fsf@gnu.org> <83d2srt645.fsf@gnu.org> <87y5bfkmsz.fsf@yandex.ru> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1368718924 7106 80.91.229.3 (16 May 2013 15:42:04 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 16 May 2013 15:42:04 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Dmitry Gutov Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu May 16 17:42:02 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@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 1Ud0Jd-0002Z9-1t for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 16 May 2013 17:42:01 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:35444 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Ud0Jc-0006Wi-Mj for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 16 May 2013 11:42:00 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:54571) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Ud0JY-0006W1-E6 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 16 May 2013 11:41:59 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Ud0JT-0006Dq-Dm for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 16 May 2013 11:41:56 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout22.012.net.il ([80.179.55.172]:48844) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Ud0JT-0006Cw-5v for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 16 May 2013 11:41:51 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout22.012.net.il by a-mtaout22.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0MMW00C00E4GPG00@a-mtaout22.012.net.il> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 16 May 2013 18:41:28 +0300 (IDT) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by a-mtaout22.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0MMW00CJCE948SB0@a-mtaout22.012.net.il>; Thu, 16 May 2013 18:41:28 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: <87y5bfkmsz.fsf@yandex.ru> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 X-Received-From: 80.179.55.172 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:159620 Archived-At: > From: Dmitry Gutov > 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.