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: Thu, 16 May 2013 20:54:16 +0300 Message-ID: <83y5bestdj.fsf@gnu.org> References: <83d2tu49lu.fsf@gnu.org> <83zjweo5dh.fsf@gnu.org> <83sj25nym2.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> <834ne3sziw.fsf@gnu.org> <519504DD.1030004@yandex.ru> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1368726874 31489 80.91.229.3 (16 May 2013 17:54:34 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 16 May 2013 17:54:34 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, dgutov@yandex.ru To: Dani Moncayo Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu May 16 19:54:33 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 1Ud2Nr-0002EF-U5 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 16 May 2013 19:54:32 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:53659 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Ud2Nr-0004cU-Dr for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 16 May 2013 13:54:31 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:37960) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Ud2Nk-0004X7-Mj for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 16 May 2013 13:54:29 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Ud2Nf-00032Q-O4 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 16 May 2013 13:54:24 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout20.012.net.il ([80.179.55.166]:57126) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Ud2Nf-00032G-Fs for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 16 May 2013 13:54:19 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout20.012.net.il by a-mtaout20.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0MMW00300KACEL00@a-mtaout20.012.net.il> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 16 May 2013 20:54:17 +0300 (IDT) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by a-mtaout20.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0MMW00392KEHCD20@a-mtaout20.012.net.il>; Thu, 16 May 2013 20:54:17 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: 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:159625 Archived-At: > Date: Thu, 16 May 2013 19:17:04 +0200 > From: Dani Moncayo > Cc: Eli Zaretskii , Emacs development discussions > > "/usr/local" is a valid directory specification in MSYS, so I don't > see why the installation should fail. Omitting the --prefix in "make > install" should simply install Emacs under that directory. Except that /usr/local is mapped by MSYS to something like C:\MSYS\local or some such, not something Windows users who aren't used to MSYS would expect. After "make install", a naive user might not be able to find the installation, especially if the sources are not on drive C:. That's why I wrote in INSTALL.MSYS that using the default is not recommended. In general, I suggest to always specify --prefix in Windows format, i.e. x:/foo/bar, when using MSYS to run the configure scripts. MSYS Bash supports that, and using Windows file names will give you a chance to remember one less weird factoid. > The Texinfo version that comes with MSYS works just fine, AFAICT. > There is only a minor issue with ^M characters that get inserted in > the info directory in certain situations. > > So, I don't see a big need for having to uninstall that Texinfo and > manually install the other (the Windows-native) one. I will let users decide whether they want to uninstall it. I just added a sentence with the mingw-get command needed to do so, that's all.