From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stephen Leake Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: MS-Windows build using Posix configury Date: Sun, 19 May 2013 01:48:49 -0500 Message-ID: <85li7ba2i6.fsf@member.fsf.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> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1368946161 15671 80.91.229.3 (19 May 2013 06:49:21 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 19 May 2013 06:49:21 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun May 19 08:49:20 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 1UdxQl-0000a8-Rw for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 19 May 2013 08:49:19 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:38506 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UdxQl-00011p-BC for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 19 May 2013 02:49:19 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:36686) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UdxQe-00011j-KG for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 19 May 2013 02:49:17 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UdxQY-0008JF-Jg for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 19 May 2013 02:49:12 -0400 Original-Received: from vms173021pub.verizon.net ([206.46.173.21]:47707) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UdxQY-0008J4-Ey for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 19 May 2013 02:49:06 -0400 Original-Received: from TAKVER ([unknown] [71.241.247.125]) by vms173021.mailsrvcs.net (Sun Java(tm) System Messaging Server 7u2-7.02 32bit (built Apr 16 2009)) with ESMTPA id <0MN1006PF9LD7570@vms173021.mailsrvcs.net> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 19 May 2013 01:48:55 -0500 (CDT) In-reply-to: <87y5bfkmsz.fsf@yandex.ru> (Dmitry Gutov's message of "Thu, 16 May 2013 18:43:24 +0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3 (windows-nt) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 206.46.173.21 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:159672 Archived-At: Dmitry Gutov writes: > Eli Zaretskii writes: >> I'd like to encourage everyone who builds native Windows port of Emacs >> to please switch to this method; the old nt/configure.bat and >> Windows-specific makefile.w32-in files are from now on deprecated. >> Start by reading nt/INSTALL.MSYS. > > Thank you for you work. A few comments on the documentation: > >> It is always preferable to use --prefix to configure Emacs for >> some specific location of its installed tree; the default >> /usr/local is not suitable for Windows. It would be best to say _why_ you think "/usr/local is not suitable for Windows". Certainly Microsoft doesn't care about "/usr/local". Neither does MSYS or MinGW (if installed in the default places). Cygwin might, if installed at c:/ (as I do). In that case, it would appear your MSYS/MinGW Emacs build is a Cygwin build, which would be confusing. -- -- Stephe