From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#20113: windows binary contains two identical executables Date: Mon, 16 Mar 2015 05:45:19 +0200 Message-ID: <83bnjt1u7k.fsf@gnu.org> References: Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1426477589 30930 80.91.229.3 (16 Mar 2015 03:46:29 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 16 Mar 2015 03:46:29 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 20113-done@debbugs.gnu.org To: Mario Valencia Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Mar 16 04:46:14 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@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 1YXLyk-0001as-6w for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 16 Mar 2015 04:46:10 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:46992 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YXLyj-00027p-JG for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 15 Mar 2015 23:46:09 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:59728) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YXLyg-00023F-88 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 15 Mar 2015 23:46:07 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YXLyd-0008Ig-0t for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 15 Mar 2015 23:46:06 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.43]:49271) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YXLyc-0008Ic-UT for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 15 Mar 2015 23:46:02 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1YXLyc-0005lF-Og for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 15 Mar 2015 23:46:02 -0400 Resent-From: Eli Zaretskii Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-To: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Mon, 16 Mar 2015 03:46:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: cc-closed 20113 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: Mail-Followup-To: 20113@debbugs.gnu.org, eliz@gnu.org, mariovalspi@gmail.com Original-Received: via spool by 20113-done@debbugs.gnu.org id=D20113.142647754122106 (code D ref 20113); Mon, 16 Mar 2015 03:46:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 20113-done) by debbugs.gnu.org; 16 Mar 2015 03:45:41 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:47838 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1YXLyG-0005kT-Q4 for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Sun, 15 Mar 2015 23:45:41 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout21.012.net.il ([80.179.55.169]:40780) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1YXLyC-0005kI-2H for 20113-done@debbugs.gnu.org; Sun, 15 Mar 2015 23:45:37 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout21.012.net.il by a-mtaout21.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0NLA00500CK3G700@a-mtaout21.012.net.il> for 20113-done@debbugs.gnu.org; Mon, 16 Mar 2015 05:45:34 +0200 (IST) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by a-mtaout21.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0NLA005BOD3XCS80@a-mtaout21.012.net.il>; Mon, 16 Mar 2015 05:45:34 +0200 (IST) In-reply-to: X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x X-Received-From: 140.186.70.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:100514 Archived-At: > Date: Sun, 15 Mar 2015 17:59:46 -0600 > From: Mario Valencia > > http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/emacs/windows/ > the windows binary emacs-24.4-bin-i686-pc-mingw32.zip > contains two identical executables called emacs.exe and emacs24.4.exe Yes. It's a feature: it allows you to later override emacs.exe with a newer version, but keep the other one for reference, if you need it. That's how "make install" installs the binaries. Ideally, they should be hard links to the same data, but AFAIK zip files on Windows don't support hard links. IOW, not a bug; closing.