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: Installing the Emacs executable Date: Fri, 19 Apr 2013 22:05:14 +0300 Message-ID: <83ip3i1gut.fsf@gnu.org> References: <83fvyq4es6.fsf@gnu.org> <83k3ny1hl3.fsf@gnu.org> <31mwsubb7b.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1366398346 19403 80.91.229.3 (19 Apr 2013 19:05:46 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 19 Apr 2013 19:05:46 +0000 (UTC) Cc: schwab@linux-m68k.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Glenn Morris Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Apr 19 21:05:50 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 1UTGd2-0001fN-NG for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 19 Apr 2013 21:05:48 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:47257 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UTGd1-0003lv-J5 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 19 Apr 2013 15:05:47 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:53896) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UTGcu-0003lM-Jo for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 19 Apr 2013 15:05:42 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UTGct-0001au-JA for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 19 Apr 2013 15:05:40 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout20.012.net.il ([80.179.55.166]:52206) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UTGct-0001ak-B6; Fri, 19 Apr 2013 15:05:39 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout20.012.net.il by a-mtaout20.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0MLI00C00N5KTM00@a-mtaout20.012.net.il>; Fri, 19 Apr 2013 22:05:27 +0300 (IDT) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by a-mtaout20.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0MLI00CA7NP2M3C0@a-mtaout20.012.net.il>; Fri, 19 Apr 2013 22:05:27 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: <31mwsubb7b.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 X-Received-From: 80.179.55.166 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:159021 Archived-At: > From: Glenn Morris > Cc: Andreas Schwab , emacs-devel@gnu.org > Date: Fri, 19 Apr 2013 14:57:12 -0400 > > Eli Zaretskii wrote: > > > This will overwrite the previous Emacs binary in src as well (and its > > DOC in etc), won't it? Do we really want to toss the possibility of > > being able to easily run previous builds of the same version? > > Well yes, that is basically the motivation for the build number > existing, as I understand it. As I said, I have personally never found > this a useful feature. Does any other project do this? That's a different issue. My question was about what "make install" does with DOC, not what "make emacs" does in src. We can install DOC under the name DOC-XX.YY.ZZ without changing what happens in src and in etc of the build tree.