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: "Official" binary of Emacs-24.4 for MS-Windows Date: Sat, 25 Oct 2014 09:28:19 +0300 Message-ID: <83d29g64u4.fsf@gnu.org> References: <83tx2t5uo9.fsf@gnu.org> <83siid5qgj.fsf@gnu.org> <83mw8l5kr9.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1414218547 16977 80.91.229.3 (25 Oct 2014 06:29:07 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 25 Oct 2014 06:29:07 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Dani Moncayo Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Oct 25 08:28:58 2014 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 1XhuqJ-0003pg-NW for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 25 Oct 2014 08:28:51 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:52164 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XhuqJ-0006c9-8u for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 25 Oct 2014 02:28:51 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:47002) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XhuqA-0006bn-TC for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 25 Oct 2014 02:28:48 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xhuq4-0001S5-Oc for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 25 Oct 2014 02:28:42 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout24.012.net.il ([80.179.55.180]:40278) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xhuq4-0001S0-GE for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 25 Oct 2014 02:28:36 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.mtaout24.012.net.il by mtaout24.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0NDZ00L00L8IHM00@mtaout24.012.net.il> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 25 Oct 2014 09:21:49 +0300 (IDT) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by mtaout24.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0NDZ00J8NLOD5530@mtaout24.012.net.il>; Sat, 25 Oct 2014 09:21:49 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.x X-Received-From: 80.179.55.180 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:175806 Archived-At: > Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2014 22:21:49 +0200 > From: Dani Moncayo > Cc: Emacs development discussions > > >> To produce the binary distribution, should I do a plain "make > >> install"? Or perhaps: > >> make install GZIP_INFO= GZIP_PROG= > >> ? > > > > I don't see a reason not to compress files. Emacs can display and use > > them just fine, even if gzip.exe is not installed/available, right? > > I've always used "GZIP_INFO= GZIP_PROG=". Now I've tried a plain > "make install", and something goes wrong: if I open the installed > Emacs "runemacs -Q" and do "C-h r", the manual does not open. The > *info* buffer is empty and the *Messages* buffer has: > user-error: No such node or anchor: Top > > I've just made a second install (from the same build), this time with > "GZIP_INFO= GZIP_PROG=". In this installation the above problem does > not happen. I don't object to not compressing the files, if compressing them causes trouble on some systems.