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From: Dani Moncayo <dmoncayo@gmail.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: Brief Busters <dgutov@yandex.ru>,
	Emacs development discussions <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: MS-Windows build using Posix configury
Date: Thu, 16 May 2013 20:01:04 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAH8Pv0j-eENSbzaox-+odT8A8+HN3bGjvFxx07EBzykVu3WX9g@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83y5bestdj.fsf@gnu.org>

>> "/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.

Yes, I agree.

I just was pointing out the behavior I would expect if someone omits
--prefix when configuring, and also when installing Emacs.

> 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.

Ok.

Thank you very much for your great work, Eli.

--
Dani Moncayo



  reply	other threads:[~2013-05-16 18:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 116+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-04-16 18:24 MS-Windows build using Posix configury Eli Zaretskii
2013-04-16 18:40 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-04-16 20:13 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-04-17  2:53   ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-04-16 21:17 ` Glenn Morris
2013-04-17  2:56   ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-04-17  6:25     ` Glenn Morris
2013-04-17 16:48       ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-04-17 17:11         ` Glenn Morris
2013-04-17 17:34           ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-04-17 17:53             ` Glenn Morris
2013-04-17 18:15               ` Glenn Morris
2013-04-17 18:44                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-04-17  0:42 ` Glenn Morris
2013-04-17  2:57   ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-04-17  6:24     ` Glenn Morris
2013-04-17  3:33 ` Paul Eggert
2013-04-17 17:00   ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-04-17 18:48     ` Paul Eggert
2013-04-17 19:15       ` Glenn Morris
2013-04-17 19:45         ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-04-17 20:43           ` Glenn Morris
2013-04-17 21:19         ` Paul Eggert
2013-04-17 22:38           ` Glenn Morris
2013-04-18  0:52             ` Paul Eggert
2013-04-18  5:29               ` Glenn Morris
2013-04-18 16:11                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-04-17  6:27 ` Glenn Morris
2013-04-17  6:31 ` Glenn Morris
2013-04-18 19:32 ` Dani Moncayo
2013-04-18 20:27   ` Dani Moncayo
2013-04-18 21:20   ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-04-18 22:03     ` Dani Moncayo
2013-04-19  6:34       ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-04-19 20:17         ` Dani Moncayo
2013-04-20  6:34           ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-04-20  7:35             ` Dani Moncayo
2013-04-20  7:56               ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-04-20 17:18                 ` Dani Moncayo
2013-04-20 18:30                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-04-20 20:21                     ` Dani Moncayo
2013-04-21 15:12                       ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-04-21 19:53                         ` Dani Moncayo
2013-05-01 15:30                           ` Dani Moncayo
2013-05-01 16:30                             ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-05-01 19:30                               ` Dani Moncayo
2013-05-01 19:40                                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-05-02  6:43                                   ` Dani Moncayo
2013-05-02 16:19                                     ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-05-02 18:40                                       ` Dani Moncayo
2013-05-02 19:49                                         ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-05-02 21:42                                           ` Dani Moncayo
2013-05-02 21:43                                             ` Dani Moncayo
2013-05-03  8:50                                             ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-05-04 10:59                                               ` Dani Moncayo
2013-05-04 11:04                                                 ` Dani Moncayo
2013-05-04 11:27                                                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-05-04 12:00                                                   ` Dani Moncayo
2013-05-04 12:30                                                     ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-05-07 19:36                                                       ` Dani Moncayo
2013-05-07 21:13                                                         ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-05-07 22:04                                                           ` Dani Moncayo
2013-05-08 17:09                                                             ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-05-08 17:32                                                               ` Dani Moncayo
2013-05-13 12:23                                                               ` Andy Moreton
2013-05-13 16:23                                                                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-05-16  6:00                                                                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-05-16  6:31                                                                     ` Paul Eggert
2013-05-16  6:56                                                                       ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-05-16  7:16                                                                         ` Paul Eggert
2013-05-16  7:30                                                                           ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-05-16 13:19                                                                     ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-05-16 14:43                                                                       ` Dmitry Gutov
2013-05-16 15:41                                                                         ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-05-16 16:10                                                                           ` Dmitry Gutov
2013-05-16 17:17                                                                             ` Dani Moncayo
2013-05-16 17:54                                                                               ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-05-16 18:01                                                                                 ` Dani Moncayo [this message]
2013-05-16 18:36                                                                                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-05-16 21:02                                                                                 ` Dmitry Gutov
2013-05-17  6:02                                                                                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-05-16 17:18                                                                             ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-05-16 21:19                                                                               ` Dmitry Gutov
2013-05-17  9:39                                                                                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-05-17 12:05                                                                                   ` Dmitry Gutov
2013-05-17 13:13                                                                                     ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-05-17 14:03                                                                                       ` Dmitry Gutov
2013-05-17 14:26                                                                                         ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-05-17 15:29                                                                                           ` Dmitry Gutov
2013-05-17 16:05                                                                                             ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-05-17 16:30                                                                                               ` Dmitry Gutov
2013-05-17 17:40                                                                                                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-05-17 18:43                                                                                                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-05-17 20:47                                                                                                     ` Dmitry Gutov
2013-05-18  7:18                                                                                                       ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-05-18  8:08                                                                                                         ` Dmitry Gutov
2013-05-18  9:08                                                                                                           ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-05-18 13:24                                                                                                             ` Dmitry Gutov
2013-05-18 14:25                                                                                                               ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-05-18 14:28                                                                                                                 ` Dmitry Gutov
2013-05-18 18:21                                                                                                                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-05-18 18:42                                                                                                                     ` Dmitry Gutov
2013-05-18 18:53                                                                                                                       ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-05-18 19:15                                                                                                                         ` Dmitry Gutov
2013-05-18 19:24                                                                                                                           ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-06-07  8:51                                                                                                                           ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-06-07  9:36                                                                                                                             ` Dmitry Gutov
2013-06-07  9:56                                                                                                                               ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-05-19  6:48                                                                         ` Stephen Leake
2013-05-19 14:51                                                                           ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-05-21  8:31                                                                             ` Stephen Leake
2013-05-21 17:07                                                                               ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-05-21 19:36                                                                                 ` Stephen Leake
2013-05-25  7:29                                                                                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-04-19  3:05 ` Ken Brown
2013-04-19  6:35   ` Eli Zaretskii

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