From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [emacs-announce] Emacs pretest 26.0.90 is out Date: Fri, 03 Nov 2017 22:09:55 +0200 Message-ID: <83efpfunsc.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87po9t2w96.fsf@petton.fr> <86vaj3x8ms.fsf@stephe-leake.org> <83y3nnvgax.fsf@gnu.org> <86vairb860.fsf@stephe-leake.org> <87lgjngpuz.fsf@russet.org.uk> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1509739813 10348 195.159.176.226 (3 Nov 2017 20:10:13 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 3 Nov 2017 20:10:13 +0000 (UTC) Cc: stephen_leake@stephe-leake.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: phillip.lord@russet.org.uk (Phillip Lord) Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Nov 03 21:10:07 2017 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1eAiHy-0001cz-QI for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 03 Nov 2017 21:10:02 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:38279 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eAiI3-0003Jv-0x for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 03 Nov 2017 16:10:07 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:45340) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eAiHv-0003JT-Tg for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 03 Nov 2017 16:10:00 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eAiHs-0003MY-PE for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 03 Nov 2017 16:09:59 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:34240) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eAiHs-0003MQ-Kg; Fri, 03 Nov 2017 16:09:56 -0400 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=2494 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1eAiHr-00011T-V4; Fri, 03 Nov 2017 16:09:56 -0400 In-reply-to: <87lgjngpuz.fsf@russet.org.uk> (phillip.lord@russet.org.uk) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-Topics: emacs-announce X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 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" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:219901 Archived-At: > From: phillip.lord@russet.org.uk (Phillip Lord) > Cc: emacs-devel > Date: Fri, 03 Nov 2017 18:48:52 +0000 > > Then you'll need to add the following directories to your Windows PATH > environment variable: > > c:\msys64\usr\bin;c:\msys64\mingw64\bin > > you can do this through Control Panel / System and Security / System / > Advanced system settings / Environment Variables / Edit path. > ==== > > I'm not sure this is necessary; are they not default when using the > mingw64 shell? AFAIU, only if you install in the default location. And verifying these directories are on PATH can never do any harm. > ** From the FTP site > > The Emacs ftp site is located at https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/emacs/ > ==== > > > Not sure an FTP site can be located at https. The URL is correct, so I'm not sure I understand the comment. > if your MSYS2 make supports > ==== > > It will, will it not? Wanna bet? > I'm also a little dubious about "INSTALL" -- I use the proceedure in > INSTALL.W64 with a few path changes. Do we really need two INSTALL docs? They describe two different development environments. > Finally, is it worth linking to the build scripts? I'd suggest first to gather some experience with them.