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: addpm.exe missing from installation Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2012 23:05:41 +0300 Message-ID: <83r4tnrkyy.fsf@gnu.org> References: <4FD4B1A2.5000502@gmail.com> <83wr3frw7c.fsf@gnu.org> <4FD4E345.6000201@gmail.com> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1339358744 9800 80.91.229.3 (10 Jun 2012 20:05:44 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2012 20:05:44 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Christoph Scholtes Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Jun 10 22:05:43 2012 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 1SdoOL-0003kL-5x for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 10 Jun 2012 22:05:41 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:34390 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SdoOL-00029R-0T for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 10 Jun 2012 16:05:41 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:51647) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SdoOI-00029A-82 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 10 Jun 2012 16:05:39 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SdoOG-0008Ly-Gy for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 10 Jun 2012 16:05:37 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout20.012.net.il ([80.179.55.166]:59397) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SdoOG-0008Ls-8j for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 10 Jun 2012 16:05:36 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout20.012.net.il by a-mtaout20.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0M5F00K003S62D00@a-mtaout20.012.net.il> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 10 Jun 2012 23:05:34 +0300 (IDT) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.210.75]) by a-mtaout20.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0M5F00JP03TAQT90@a-mtaout20.012.net.il>; Sun, 10 Jun 2012 23:05:34 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: <4FD4E345.6000201@gmail.com> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 (beta) 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:150881 Archived-At: > Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2012 12:11:17 -0600 > From: Christoph Scholtes > CC: emacs-devel@gnu.org > > On 6/10/2012 10:03 AM, Eli Zaretskii wrote: > > > Sorry, I don't follow: aren't you invoking "make install"? If not, > > what Make command are you using that doesn't work? > > No. When creating the binary distribution, I do not want to install the > shortcuts in my start menu. That was the main reason for creating the > install-bin target to allow to create an in-place installation from > which a distribution can be created without creating the shortcuts. make > install will run make install-bin and then install-shortcuts, so we get > the normal, expected behavior including shortcuts. So what are the commands you invoke when you prepare a binary distribution? Armed with that knowledge, I can find a way to keep both "make install" and your procedure happy. > > In general, addpm.exe is not needed, unless one wants to create or > > update the shortcuts, which is why I didn't hesitate to move that > > command (in its previous place, it interfered with parallel execution > > of "make install", which was the motivation for the change). > > We should include it in the binary distribution, right? Yes, definitely.