From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.ciao.gmane.io!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Avoid duplicate emacs.exe / emacs-$version.exe Date: Sun, 29 Mar 2020 05:27:29 +0300 Message-ID: <83pncv6gku.fsf@gnu.org> References: <865zeoctg3.fsf@csic.es> <83tv285ole.fsf@gnu.org> <87h7y8me5m.fsf@russet.org.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="ciao.gmane.io:159.69.161.202"; logging-data="43222"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: juanjose.garciaripoll@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Phillip Lord Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sun Mar 29 04:27:55 2020 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1jINg2-000B7s-Je for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 29 Mar 2020 04:27:54 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:33712 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jINg1-0000fW-Mx for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 28 Mar 2020 22:27:53 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:58591) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jINfZ-00007A-KW for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 28 Mar 2020 22:27:26 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:44222) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1jINfZ-0006g0-4A; Sat, 28 Mar 2020 22:27:25 -0400 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=4887 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1jINfX-0006Wx-Rh; Sat, 28 Mar 2020 22:27:24 -0400 In-Reply-To: <87h7y8me5m.fsf@russet.org.uk> (message from Phillip Lord on Sat, 28 Mar 2020 20:13:09 +0000) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 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-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:245920 Archived-At: > From: Phillip Lord > Cc: Juan José García-Ripoll > , > emacs-devel@gnu.org > Date: Sat, 28 Mar 2020 20:13:09 +0000 > > > Eli Zaretskii writes: > > >> Right now in my hard disk I have two copies of statically linked Emacs. > > > > (This is a secondary point, but Emacs is not linked statically, at > > least not by default. The large size is mostly due to debug info, and > > you can strip it if you want, although I don't recommend doing so for > > a pretest version, because you cannot produce meaningful backtraces > > from a stripped binary.) > > The pretests should be stripped actually. I use make install for > snapshot builds. The ones with an actual version number are make > install-strip'd. Given the size, I don't think they are stripped.