From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Andy Moreton Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Directory structure changes in Emacs installed on MS-Windows Date: Fri, 05 Apr 2013 00:16:56 +0100 Message-ID: <82wqshx4wn.fsf@gmail.com> References: <83r4iqfaw1.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1365117435 28733 80.91.229.3 (4 Apr 2013 23:17:15 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 4 Apr 2013 23:17:15 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Apr 05 01:17:44 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 1UNtPa-0002xQ-FM for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 05 Apr 2013 01:17:42 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:46669 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UNtPB-0007t8-BU for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 04 Apr 2013 19:17:17 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:52012) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UNtP6-0007sf-9w for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 04 Apr 2013 19:17:14 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UNtP3-0007if-S3 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 04 Apr 2013 19:17:12 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:35514) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UNtP3-0007iB-Li for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 04 Apr 2013 19:17:09 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1UNtPQ-0002pK-Kh for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 05 Apr 2013 01:17:32 +0200 Original-Received: from 82-69-64-228.dsl.in-addr.zen.co.uk ([82.69.64.228]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 05 Apr 2013 01:17:32 +0200 Original-Received: from andrewjmoreton by 82-69-64-228.dsl.in-addr.zen.co.uk with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 05 Apr 2013 01:17:32 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 57 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 82-69-64-228.dsl.in-addr.zen.co.uk User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3.50 (windows-nt) Cancel-Lock: sha1:BjHSMawCSsc44hXrfiRkHpAG0KM= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 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:158663 Archived-At: On Thu 04 Apr 2013, Eli Zaretskii wrote: > As part of my work on building the native MS-Windows Emacs using the > Posix configury and Makefile's, I intend to change the structure of > the installed Emacs directory tree, so that it more closely resembles > installations on Posix systems. The details are below. > > Does anyone see any disadvantages in making these changes? > > Here's what the installed Emacs directory tree will look like: > > %emacs_dir%/bin -- binaries that users invoke: emacs.exe, > runemacs.exe, etags.exe, ctags.exe, addpm.exe > > %emacs_dir%/libexec/emacs/VERSION/i686-pc-mingw32 -- > auxiliary binaries that Emacs invokes: > cmdproxy.exe, hexl.exe, ddeclient.exe > > %emacs_dir%/share/info -- Info manuals > > %emacs_dir%/share/man -- man pages > > %emacs_dir%/share/emacs/VERSION/lisp -- Lisp files > > %emacs_dir%/share/emacs/VERSION/leim -- Leim files > > %emacs_dir%/share/emacs/VERSION/site-lisp -- site-specific Lisp > > %emacs_dir%/share/emacs/VERSION/etc -- architecture-independent > files: DOC, tutorials, image files, themes, etc. > > %emacs_dir%/var/games/emacs -- Emacs game score files > > %emacs_dir% stands for whatever directory Emacs is installed in, and > VERSION stands for the Emacs version, like 25.5. > > The advantages of this arrangement, as I see them, are (1) it follows > the installation tree on Posix platforms, so will make things easier > for those who work on both kinds of platforms; (2) it will become > possible to have several Emacs versions installed that can be invoked > without any need to tweak PATH or rename the DOC file; (3) it will be > possible to share the installation tree with other platforms, > e.g., install Emacs on some remote volume shared via a network. > > Comments? This all looks sensible to me. I assume that you are doing this work with MSYS. Using the Posix configury would also work for using the win32 hosted mingw64 compilers with MSYS, and also for the cygwin hosted mingw64 cross compilers. Getting the cygwin hosted cross compilers working would then be a stepping stone to getting linux hosted mingw64 cross compilers working (after sorting out how to handle dumping in a cross build). AndyM