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: Wed, 17 Apr 2013 05:56:18 +0300 Message-ID: <83zjwx3lwt.fsf@gnu.org> References: <83d2tu49lu.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1366167367 14798 80.91.229.3 (17 Apr 2013 02:56:07 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2013 02:56:07 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Glenn Morris Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Apr 17 04:56:11 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 1USIXZ-0001eD-Dv for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 17 Apr 2013 04:56:09 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:40821 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1USIXZ-0007Pl-3S for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 16 Apr 2013 22:56:09 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:45487) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1USIXW-0007OX-Ji for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 16 Apr 2013 22:56:07 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1USIXV-0002DT-Me for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 16 Apr 2013 22:56:06 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout22.012.net.il ([80.179.55.172]:34149) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1USIXV-0002Cz-Dt; Tue, 16 Apr 2013 22:56:05 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout22.012.net.il by a-mtaout22.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0MLD00000P8I2O00@a-mtaout22.012.net.il>; Wed, 17 Apr 2013 05:56:04 +0300 (IDT) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by a-mtaout22.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0MLD000MOPHF1Z20@a-mtaout22.012.net.il>; Wed, 17 Apr 2013 05:56:04 +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: 80.179.55.172 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:158966 Archived-At: > From: Glenn Morris > Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org > Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2013 17:17:27 -0400 > > Eli Zaretskii wrote: > > > LN_S = @LN_S@ > > +# Used in "make install". Usually, $(LN_S), but MS-Windows uses hard links. > > +LN_EMACS = @LN_EMACS@ > > I think it would be better if you just set LN_S=ln. > That's already what configure does on platforms where 'ln -s' doesn't > work (if there are any relevant to Emacs; it can even degrade further to > cp -p). On Windows, the configure script sets LN_S to "cp -p" already. I see no reason to override that, because this is OK elsewhere in the build.