From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Dani Moncayo Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: MS-Windows build using Posix configury Date: Thu, 16 May 2013 19:17:04 +0200 Message-ID: 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> <834ne3sziw.fsf@gnu.org> <519504DD.1030004@yandex.ru> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1368724641 6662 80.91.229.3 (16 May 2013 17:17:21 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 16 May 2013 17:17:21 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Eli Zaretskii , Emacs development discussions To: Dmitry Gutov Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu May 16 19:17:19 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 1Ud1nl-0002Fz-6d for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 16 May 2013 19:17:13 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:33330 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Ud1nk-0007AC-Jf for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 16 May 2013 13:17:12 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:54809) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Ud1ng-00077O-Vi for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 16 May 2013 13:17:10 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Ud1nf-0006dH-4l for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 16 May 2013 13:17:08 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-lb0-f182.google.com ([209.85.217.182]:51678) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Ud1nd-0006cW-FL; Thu, 16 May 2013 13:17:05 -0400 Original-Received: by mail-lb0-f182.google.com with SMTP id z5so1031273lbh.27 for ; Thu, 16 May 2013 10:17:04 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:x-received:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id :subject:from:to:cc:content-type; bh=51Cd4OzSVa0mD76hfLqIxGOAepSSYKpFEWtBqGlyQ4Y=; b=Sq/Dvg2JAjGuHG/a32QGmx1XgXyxXJCuU0BuUSPO4kcp6XptheaBAadXw+CNkNvhdc upta7q4HbRQrJlmq61dzaOdbUr13OhwVorQxGsiCmyHaHKlf1RA6KAPapGR58uD1EbX/ ODcQkHiZQm4MnOKnpno+fPKxiW1QNGNHN8SSlL+Xqo2dKlhf0sWONuEoZQ+6p9cwfcOt +bCL2eivVMcOMkFVZWEv8rpdCyUE3EeV2gFWQ15cu63HaQU8LIL9l7P0+KaELBBvdRyn N5GVAtUBJ+UZbIg3W1PPFyr8lEBNPzSYhhO2DQVc38l8t52UU1CjKjlMNj7DUIVmclf0 JONw== X-Received: by 10.152.26.65 with SMTP id j1mr20746980lag.42.1368724624237; Thu, 16 May 2013 10:17:04 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.114.69.236 with HTTP; Thu, 16 May 2013 10:17:04 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <519504DD.1030004@yandex.ru> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 209.85.217.182 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:159622 Archived-At: >>>> 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. >>> >>> >>> What's going to happen if I disregard this recommendation? Will build >>> fail? >> >> >> No, I don't think the build will fail. --prefix is only important for >> "make install". > > > If the installation will fail, maybe the prefix should default to some > reasonable directory within the Emacs tree. Would it be hard to do that? "/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. >>>> (We recommend that you refrain from installing the MSYS Texinfo >>>> package, which is part of msys-base, because it might produce mixed >>>> EOL format when installing Info files. Instead, install the MinGW >>>> port of Texinfo, see the ezwinports URL below.) >>> >>> >>> How am I supposed to do that? MinGW-Get installer only allows me to >>> check or uncheck the whole "MSYS Base" category, not the individual >>> packages. >> >> >> I don't know; I don't use mingw-get. Perhaps uninstall the Texinfo >> package after installing msys-base (assuming mingw-get has an >> uninstall option that can uninstall a single package)? If that >> doesn't work, I suggest to ask on the mingw-users mailing list, the >> developer of mingw-get is reading that. > > > Indeed, "mingw-get remove msys-texinfo" seems to have done that. > If having to remove that package manually (as opposed to not installing it) > is going to be a common situation, maybe INSTALL.MSYS should reflect that. 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. -- Dani Moncayo