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: make dist target for Windows Date: Fri, 02 Apr 2010 11:25:12 +0300 Message-ID: <83k4sqw9av.fsf@gnu.org> References: <4BB2BB70.3090608@gmail.com> <83eij0zydg.fsf@gnu.org> <4BB3FB7C.3040106@gmail.com> <83iq8by6bw.fsf@gnu.org> <4BB571EA.4030209@gmail.com> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1270196898 13591 80.91.229.12 (2 Apr 2010 08:28:18 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 2 Apr 2010 08:28:18 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Christoph Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Apr 02 10:28:13 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NxcEf-0002uv-4E for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 02 Apr 2010 10:28:13 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:39110 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NxcEe-0001CE-GE for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 02 Apr 2010 04:28:12 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NxcC1-0005wC-Nm for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 02 Apr 2010 04:25:29 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=33099 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NxcC0-0005sr-AN for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 02 Apr 2010 04:25:29 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NxcBy-0005GP-7v for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 02 Apr 2010 04:25:28 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout20.012.net.il ([80.179.55.166]:55851) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NxcBy-0005G5-13 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 02 Apr 2010 04:25:26 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout20.012.net.il by a-mtaout20.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0L0800L00Q0O7Z00@a-mtaout20.012.net.il> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 02 Apr 2010 11:25:15 +0300 (IDT) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([77.124.92.42]) by a-mtaout20.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0L0800G96Q1Z97C0@a-mtaout20.012.net.il>; Fri, 02 Apr 2010 11:25:15 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: <4BB571EA.4030209@gmail.com> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 (beta) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:123056 Archived-At: > Date: Thu, 01 Apr 2010 22:26:18 -0600 > From: Christoph > Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org > > + When building Emacs binary distributions, the --distfiles argument > + to configure.bat specifies the path to files to include in the binary > + distribution. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ First, in the GNU project's terminology, ``a path'' is a list of directories such as is found in PATH or in INFOPATH. What you mean here is ``a file name'', not a path. Second, you say ``files'', in plural, which begs a question: how to specify more than one such DLL? Do you use several --distfiles options? > + For example, specifying > + > + --distfiles D:/distfiles/libXpm.dll > + > + results in libXpm.dll being copied from D:/distfiles/ to the > + /bin directory before packaging starts. It would be nice if you said whether it's necessary to use forward slashes here. Also, since the files are copied to the `bin' directory, perhaps you should tell explicitly that this option is for DLLs that are not built as part of Emacs, e.g. image libraries. Your current description sounds like the option is more general, which it really isn't. Thanks!