Emacs-26 w64 problem

Emacs-26 w64 problem

[Fabrice Popineau]

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I would like to raise a warning about the current status of Emacs-26.

I have done
make distclean
make bootstrap
../emacs/configure --prefix= ...

and I had the surprise that somehow, my whole mingw64 directory -- where
emacs is meant to be installed -- has been _erased_ .
Easy enough to fix, but surprising.

Regards,

Fabrice

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Re: Emacs-26 w64 problem

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Fabrice Popineau <fabrice.popineau@gmail.com>
> Date: Sat, 28 Oct 2017 19:28:11 +0200
> 
> I have done 
> make distclean
> make bootstrap
> ../emacs/configure --prefix= ...
> 
> and I had the surprise that somehow, my whole mingw64 directory -- where emacs is meant to be installed --
> has been _erased_ .

By "mingw64 directory" do you mean the directory specified by --prefix?
Or do you mean something else?

Re: Emacs-26 w64 problem

[Fabrice Popineau]

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2017-10-28 19:34 GMT+02:00 Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>:

> > From: Fabrice Popineau <fabrice.popineau@gmail.com>
> > Date: Sat, 28 Oct 2017 19:28:11 +0200
> >
> > I have done
> > make distclean
> > make bootstrap
> > ../emacs/configure --prefix= ...
> >
> > and I had the surprise that somehow, my whole mingw64 directory -- where
> emacs is meant to be installed --
> > has been _erased_ .
>
> By "mingw64 directory" do you mean the directory specified by --prefix?
> Or do you mean something else?
>

I configure with --prefix=/mingw64
and everything under /mingw64/bin has been erased

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Re: Emacs-26 w64 problem

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Fabrice Popineau <fabrice.popineau@gmail.com>
> Date: Sat, 28 Oct 2017 19:59:20 +0200
> Cc: Emacs developers <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
> 
> I configure with --prefix=/mingw64 
> and everything under /mingw64/bin has been erased

Can you spot the Makefile rule or command that does/did this?
Maybe I'm blind, but I couldn't find it.

Re: Emacs-26 w64 problem

[Phillip Lord]

On Sat, October 28, 2017 5:28 pm, Fabrice Popineau wrote:
> I would like to raise a warning about the current status of Emacs-26.
>
>
> I have done
> make distclean make bootstrap ../emacs/configure --prefix= ...
>
>
> and I had the surprise that somehow, my whole mingw64 directory -- where
> emacs is meant to be installed -- has been _erased_ . Easy enough to fix,
> but surprising.


In that order? With configure after make?

Phil

Re: Emacs-26 w64 problem

[Fabrice Popineau]

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2017-10-28 20:30 GMT+02:00 Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>:

> > From: Fabrice Popineau <fabrice.popineau@gmail.com>
> > Date: Sat, 28 Oct 2017 19:59:20 +0200
> > Cc: Emacs developers <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
> >
> > I configure with --prefix=/mingw64
> > and everything under /mingw64/bin has been erased
>
> Can you spot the Makefile rule or command that does/did this?
> Maybe I'm blind, but I couldn't find it.
>

I have HDD errors. The directory has been lost.
I was extremely puzzled.
Sorry for the noise.

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Re: Emacs-26 w64 problem

[Fabrice Popineau]

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2017-10-28 23:31 GMT+02:00 Phillip Lord <phillip.lord@russet.org.uk>:

> On Sat, October 28, 2017 5:28 pm, Fabrice Popineau wrote:
> > I would like to raise a warning about the current status of Emacs-26.
> >
> >
> > I have done
> > make distclean make bootstrap ../emacs/configure --prefix= ...
> >
> >
> > and I had the surprise that somehow, my whole mingw64 directory -- where
> > emacs is meant to be installed -- has been _erased_ . Easy enough to fix,
> > but surprising.
>
>
> In that order? With configure after make?
>

make distclean
make bootstrap
configure --prefix=/MingW64 <full set of options>
make -j 8
make check
make install

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