From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Installing the Emacs executable Date: Fri, 19 Apr 2013 21:48:05 -0400 Message-ID: References: <83fvyq4es6.fsf@gnu.org> <83k3ny1hl3.fsf@gnu.org> <31mwsubb7b.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <83ip3i1gut.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1366422493 12611 80.91.229.3 (20 Apr 2013 01:48:13 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 20 Apr 2013 01:48:13 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Eli Zaretskii , schwab@linux-m68k.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Glenn Morris Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Apr 20 03:48:14 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 1UTMuU-0002Ts-1H for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 20 Apr 2013 03:48:14 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:37569 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UTMuT-0008CA-CR for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 19 Apr 2013 21:48:13 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:34484) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UTMuQ-0008C1-It for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 19 Apr 2013 21:48:11 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UTMuP-0006X5-Lv for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 19 Apr 2013 21:48:10 -0400 Original-Received: from ironport2-out.teksavvy.com ([206.248.154.182]:14386) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UTMuN-0006Wa-LI; Fri, 19 Apr 2013 21:48:07 -0400 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: Av4EABK/CFHO+LAd/2dsb2JhbABEvw4Xc4IeAQEEAVYjEAsOJhIUGA0kiB4GwS2RCgOkeoFegxM X-IPAS-Result: Av4EABK/CFHO+LAd/2dsb2JhbABEvw4Xc4IeAQEEAVYjEAsOJhIUGA0kiB4GwS2RCgOkeoFegxM X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.84,565,1355115600"; d="scan'208";a="7841827" Original-Received: from 206-248-176-29.dsl.teksavvy.com (HELO ceviche.home) ([206.248.176.29]) by ironport2-out.teksavvy.com with ESMTP/TLS/ADH-AES256-SHA; 19 Apr 2013 21:48:02 -0400 Original-Received: by ceviche.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id E429F660E8; Fri, 19 Apr 2013 21:48:05 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: (Glenn Morris's message of "Fri, 19 Apr 2013 15:08:10 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 206.248.154.182 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:159025 Archived-At: >> That's a different issue. My question was about what "make install" >> does with DOC, not what "make emacs" does in src. We can install DOC >> under the name DOC-XX.YY.ZZ without changing what happens in src and >> in etc of the build tree. > Oh, I missed that. FWIW, I have never found the .ZZ part useful whether > installed or uninstalled. FWIW, my local hacks get rid of "DOC-NN.MM" in favor of "DOC" and my local "make" script does "rm src/emacs-[0-9]*" before running make. Stefan