* make on Windows vs. Linux
@ 2010-07-10 15:47 Christoph
2010-07-10 15:57 ` Eli Zaretskii
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From: Christoph @ 2010-07-10 15:47 UTC (permalink / raw
To: emacs-devel
Under Linux I like the fact, that I can check out, for example, the
trunk, make a change, run make and then run Emacs from the src/
directory directly without installing it via make install.
Under Windows, this is not possible. After running make the binaries are
not in the bin/ directory. I have to run make install to get everything
in the right place. But an in-place make install also adds a Start menu
shortcut. For test builds or branches this is just polluting my start menu.
Is there any good reason why the Windows make could not result in Emacs
runnable 'in-place' out-of-the-box? And make install could add the
shortcut and (if applicable) move the appropriate files to the directory
specified as the install path during configure?
Or am I missing something?
Christoph
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* Re: make on Windows vs. Linux
2010-07-10 15:47 make on Windows vs. Linux Christoph
@ 2010-07-10 15:57 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-07-10 18:04 ` Christoph
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From: Eli Zaretskii @ 2010-07-10 15:57 UTC (permalink / raw
To: Christoph; +Cc: emacs-devel
> Date: Sat, 10 Jul 2010 09:47:02 -0600
> From: Christoph <cschol2112@googlemail.com>
>
> Under Linux I like the fact, that I can check out, for example, the
> trunk, make a change, run make and then run Emacs from the src/
> directory directly without installing it via make install.
>
> Under Windows, this is not possible. After running make the binaries are
> not in the bin/ directory. I have to run make install to get everything
> in the right place. But an in-place make install also adds a Start menu
> shortcut. For test builds or branches this is just polluting my start menu.
>
> Is there any good reason why the Windows make could not result in Emacs
> runnable 'in-place' out-of-the-box? And make install could add the
> shortcut and (if applicable) move the appropriate files to the directory
> specified as the install path during configure?
>
> Or am I missing something?
I think you are missing the fact that you can run Emacs in-place from
a subdirectory of src:
src\oo\i386\emacs -Q
or
src\oo-spd\i386\emacs -Q
(the former if you configured --no-opt, the latter if without).
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* Re: make on Windows vs. Linux
2010-07-10 15:57 ` Eli Zaretskii
@ 2010-07-10 18:04 ` Christoph
2010-07-11 17:44 ` make on Windows vs. GNU/Linux Richard Stallman
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From: Christoph @ 2010-07-10 18:04 UTC (permalink / raw
To: Eli Zaretskii; +Cc: emacs-devel
On 7/10/2010 9:57 AM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> Is there any good reason why the Windows make could not result in Emacs
>> runnable 'in-place' out-of-the-box? And make install could add the
>> shortcut and (if applicable) move the appropriate files to the directory
>> specified as the install path during configure?
>>
>> Or am I missing something?
>
> I think you are missing the fact that you can run Emacs in-place from
> a subdirectory of src:
>
> src\oo\i386\emacs -Q
Duh! OK, I was running 'runemacs.exe' from nt\oo-spd\i386, which didn't
work and it didn't even occur to me to look in the src\ directory.
Thanks Eli. This works fine.
Christoph
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* Re: make on Windows vs. GNU/Linux
2010-07-10 18:04 ` Christoph
@ 2010-07-11 17:44 ` Richard Stallman
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From: Richard Stallman @ 2010-07-11 17:44 UTC (permalink / raw
To: Christoph; +Cc: eliz, emacs-devel
While discussing how to use Emacs on Windows, please remember that
the other system you're contrasting it with is not Linux.
Linux by itself is not a complete system comparable to Windows. Linux
is a kernel, one component of the system. You must have in mind the
GNU/Linux system, which is a complete system comparable to Windows.
GNU is our work; to call the system "Linux" is to give the credit for
our work to someone who came later and did less. So please call the
system "GNU/Linux" when you talk about it. For more explanation, see
http://www.gnu.org/gnu/gnu-linux-faq.html and
http://www.gnu.org/gnu/the-gnu-project.html.
Thanks in advance for giving us credit.
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