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: MS-Windows build using Posix configury Date: Sat, 25 May 2013 10:29:14 +0300 Message-ID: <83txlrqzzp.fsf@gnu.org> References: <83d2tu49lu.fsf@gnu.org> <837gjhnowi.fsf@gnu.org> <8338u4o39r.fsf@gnu.org> <83zjwbkmt2.fsf@gnu.org> <83wqrfkjvo.fsf@gnu.org> <838v3qebns.fsf@gnu.org> <83wqr9csah.fsf@gnu.org> <83wqr297da.fsf@gnu.org> <83txm34g6k.fsf@gnu.org> <83d2srt645.fsf@gnu.org> <87y5bfkmsz.fsf@yandex.ru> <85li7ba2i6.fsf@member.fsf.org> <831u93xbsl.fsf@gnu.org> <85li78ag4r.fsf@member.fsf.org> <83ehd0uuqh.fsf@gnu.org> <85vc6c3z23.fsf@member.fsf.org> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1369467006 14860 80.91.229.3 (25 May 2013 07:30:06 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 25 May 2013 07:30:06 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Stephen Leake Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat May 25 09:30:05 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 1Ug8vU-0004Xg-AY for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 25 May 2013 09:30:04 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:41279 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Ug8vT-0006E7-V1 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 25 May 2013 03:30:03 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:39566) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Ug8vO-0006Dj-3m for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 25 May 2013 03:30:01 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Ug8vK-0001OI-BX for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 25 May 2013 03:29:57 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout23.012.net.il ([80.179.55.175]:61965) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Ug8vI-0001My-Lf for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 25 May 2013 03:29:54 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout23.012.net.il by a-mtaout23.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0MNC00E00F647M00@a-mtaout23.012.net.il> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 25 May 2013 10:29:11 +0300 (IDT) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by a-mtaout23.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0MNC00E9RFGM1Q90@a-mtaout23.012.net.il>; Sat, 25 May 2013 10:29:11 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: <85vc6c3z23.fsf@member.fsf.org> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 X-Received-From: 80.179.55.175 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:159792 Archived-At: > From: Stephen Leake > Date: Tue, 21 May 2013 14:36:36 -0500 > > Eli Zaretskii writes: > > > Yes, "make install" will create it, but that's not the point. See the > > second part of the sentence I wrote and you quoted above. The point > > is that I want to encourage people to install ports of GNU and Unix > > software in a single tree, so that they all play together well without > > a lot of tinkering with environment variables. And _since_ there > > usually is not /usr/local on Windows systems, I doubt that /usr/local > > will be a good guess of where people might put such a tree. So I > > _want_ them to think about the root of that tree, and I want them to > > use that in the --prefix option. > > Ok; INSTALL should say that. Done. Thanks for the suggestion.