From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Next pretest, and branching plans Date: Sat, 13 Mar 2010 09:42:20 +0200 Message-ID: <837hpg3bxf.fsf@gnu.org> References: <4B8147A9.7030504@gmail.com> <87ljemdzxo.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <4B83682D.5010804@gnu.org> <4B9B0211.9070308@gmail.com> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1268466150 30373 80.91.229.12 (13 Mar 2010 07:42:30 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 13 Mar 2010 07:42:30 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Christoph Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Mar 13 08:42:26 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NqLzM-00079X-V9 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 13 Mar 2010 08:42:25 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:37641 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NqLzM-0007nD-CW for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 13 Mar 2010 02:42:24 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NqLzH-0007mw-Dq for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 13 Mar 2010 02:42:19 -0500 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=43399 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NqLzF-0007mS-5p for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 13 Mar 2010 02:42:18 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NqLzE-0000W6-0H for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 13 Mar 2010 02:42:17 -0500 Original-Received: from mtaout23.012.net.il ([80.179.55.175]:40149) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NqLzD-0000Vx-Lo for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 13 Mar 2010 02:42:15 -0500 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout23.012.net.il by a-mtaout23.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0KZ700100MLXHK00@a-mtaout23.012.net.il> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 13 Mar 2010 09:42:14 +0200 (IST) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.70.214.230]) by a-mtaout23.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0KZ700MLCMQDJMB0@a-mtaout23.012.net.il>; Sat, 13 Mar 2010 09:42:14 +0200 (IST) In-reply-to: <4B9B0211.9070308@gmail.com> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 (beta) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:121889 Archived-At: > Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2010 20:10:09 -0700 > From: Christoph > > I am trying to package the Windows binaries per Jason's instructions and > I was wondering about the make install command on Windows: without > specifying a prefix it installs in the current directory but it also > does other stuff, for example adding a shortcut to the start menu (by > calling addpm.exe). I think "make install" does that even if you do specify the directory to install in. > Would it make sense to create a 'make package-install' target that omits > these things (if there is other stuff besides the shortcut, that is more > intended for a real installation rather than packaging)? When I am > packaging I don't want the shortcut created. Patches are welcome. While at that, perhaps have that package-install target run the admin/nt/makedist.bat automatically.