From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Stephen Leake <stephen_leake@member.fsf.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Directory structure changes in Emacs installed on MS-Windows
Date: Fri, 05 Apr 2013 09:06:45 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83d2u9fr4a.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <85obdtlwz6.fsf@member.fsf.org>
> From: Stephen Leake <stephen_leake@member.fsf.org>
> Date: Thu, 04 Apr 2013 19:03:41 -0400
>
> I gather we will just need %emacs_dir%/bin in Windows PATH (as we need
> now), not also %emacs_dir%/libexec/emacs/VERSION/i686-pc-mingw32 (emacs
> will put the latter in exec-path by default).
Yes, that's true. This is done automatically at startup time.
> You left out:
>
> (0) it simplifies the task of using the Posix configury
>
> I think that's important.
It would be important if it were true, but I don't think it's true.
The way epaths.h is generated from epaths.in on Posix platforms leaves
the root of the Emacs installation tree (specified via --prefix)
hard-coded into the binary, and Emacs (AFAIK) currently doesn't
support relocation of the installation tree on Posix systems. By
contrast, on Windows relocation is a matter of routine. So I cannot
use the epaths-force target of the top-level Makefile anyway.
> > (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;
>
> I don't follow this; there is only one place for emacs.exe. Currently I
> handle this by using a different %emacs_dir% for each emacs version.
>
> I guess you could have %emacs_dir%/bin/emacs-VERSION.exe ? Does the
> Posix install do that (I've seen that convention for some tools).
Yes, the Posix install creates a symlink emacs-VERSION, and so will
the Windows one (except that instead of a symlink there will be a
copy).
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-04-05 6:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-04-04 17:45 Directory structure changes in Emacs installed on MS-Windows Eli Zaretskii
2013-04-04 22:51 ` Xue Fuqiao
2013-04-04 23:03 ` Stephen Leake
2013-04-05 6:06 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2013-04-05 8:48 ` chad
2013-04-05 9:18 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-04-05 13:19 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-04-05 14:18 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-04-05 15:19 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-04-05 15:20 ` Glenn Morris
2013-04-05 17:32 ` chad
2013-04-04 23:16 ` Andy Moreton
2013-04-05 6:08 ` Eli Zaretskii
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