From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.ciao.gmane.io!not-for-mail From: Phillip Lord Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Avoid duplicate emacs.exe / emacs-$version.exe Date: Sat, 28 Mar 2020 20:13:09 +0000 Message-ID: <87h7y8me5m.fsf@russet.org.uk> References: <865zeoctg3.fsf@csic.es> <83tv285ole.fsf@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="ciao.gmane.io:159.69.161.202"; logging-data="124018"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.90 (gnu/linux) Cc: Juan =?utf-8?Q?Jos=C3=A9_Garc=C3=ADa-Ripoll?= , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sat Mar 28 21:13:47 2020 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1jIHpy-000WBg-Is for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 28 Mar 2020 21:13:46 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:59676 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jIHpx-0001nC-Lm for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 28 Mar 2020 16:13:45 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:52144) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jIHpS-0001Fv-Sw for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 28 Mar 2020 16:13:15 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1jIHpR-0002zF-Ru for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 28 Mar 2020 16:13:14 -0400 Original-Received: from cloud103.planethippo.com ([78.129.138.110]:45088) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1jIHpP-0002tc-VR; Sat, 28 Mar 2020 16:13:12 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=russet.org.uk; s=default; h=Content-Type:MIME-Version:Message-ID: In-Reply-To:Date:References:Subject:Cc:To:From:Sender:Reply-To: Content-Transfer-Encoding:Content-ID:Content-Description:Resent-Date: Resent-From:Resent-Sender:Resent-To:Resent-Cc:Resent-Message-ID:List-Id: List-Help:List-Unsubscribe:List-Subscribe:List-Post:List-Owner:List-Archive; bh=42uEsMPMQz00Zm/8kocrv8v9P6CgsAYHqxs+Yn+wuSs=; b=2iHzM/nDkdajos/ybIwwTsMn0 Bx7eqNXZIjsWNlrA8P4rzW9NaWhwtJmIoze8ia7uC3PUgNR63a/yaVWnBnWByg1KCDiSCh0+N4gU2 vtGc5A0K0Ei1glKZleSTrPBG9SWGhdeOwg6bBrtgdFFSSRvru1sygUh+16Zm1XNPdXu+shdyo3ePD JS9JBTZBpJ5KQMa2eHOotkgX6SnyRJocf8znOVZtYpOKdRHgQDSHCtHLZgpaPzBNE24QdD/uLC/Y4 WxIyvrDom26m+NBmJZF7JZaIK0uKkstyVJ4qrQG8Ot3NMoLXJ9jNOai/BoqnrtZTRiPhz6jSEIKaP Y4cTE06vA==; Original-Received: from cpc142652-benw12-2-0-cust953.16-2.cable.virginm.net ([82.21.43.186]:45268 helo=russet.org.uk) by cloud103.planethippo.com with esmtpsa (TLS1.2) tls TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (Exim 4.93) (envelope-from ) id 1jIHpO-00085s-7f; Sat, 28 Mar 2020 20:13:10 +0000 In-Reply-To: <83tv285ole.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Sat, 28 Mar 2020 21:19:41 +0300") X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - cloud103.planethippo.com X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - gnu.org X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [47 12] / [47 12] X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - russet.org.uk X-Get-Message-Sender-Via: cloud103.planethippo.com: authenticated_id: phillip.lord@russet.org.uk X-Authenticated-Sender: cloud103.planethippo.com: phillip.lord@russet.org.uk X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 78.129.138.110 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 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-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:245901 Archived-At: Eli Zaretskii writes: >> Right now in my hard disk I have two copies of statically linked Emacs. > > (This is a secondary point, but Emacs is not linked statically, at > least not by default. The large size is mostly due to debug info, and > you can strip it if you want, although I don't recommend doing so for > a pretest version, because you cannot produce meaningful backtraces > from a stripped binary.) The pretests should be stripped actually. I use make install for snapshot builds. The ones with an actual version number are make install-strip'd. > This means your installation procedure is modified, or maybe you > installed a binary someone else produced, in which case the archive > used to package the binaries didn't support hard links. You can > restore the hard link by removing onhe of the copies and making a hard > link to the remaining copy under the other name. Incidentally, I build, run and (sort of) test the Windows distribution under NTFS compression which all works fine. If these circumstances, I think, even the difference between two files or hard-linked is moot. Phil