From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Ken Raeburn <raeburn@raeburn.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Installing the Emacs executable
Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2013 20:06:38 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83haivx3hd.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <33A901B8-67E3-4C81-BF5B-7C9B4A8836E1@raeburn.org>
> From: Ken Raeburn <raeburn@raeburn.org>
> Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2013 01:05:07 -0400
> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
>
> On Apr 19, 2013, at 15:05, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
> > That's a different issue. My question was about what "make install"
> > does with DOC, not what "make emacs" does in src. We can install DOC
> > under the name DOC-XX.YY.ZZ without changing what happens in src and
> > in etc of the build tree.
>
> I've long wondered if it would be better to get rid of the DOC file altogether and keep the documentation in the executable image.
>
> With GCC and ELF systems, it's not that hard to compile the C doc strings into a specially named section
Beware: you might get into the same situation that the Windows build
is today -- you will be unable to strip the resulting executable as
part of "make install-strip", because 'strip' doesn't know anything
about the section you add.
In any case, I thought the tendency was to stay away of tricks that
are too specific to binary formats, to avoid re-living the unexec
problem...
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-04-24 17:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-04-16 16:32 Installing the Emacs executable Eli Zaretskii
2013-04-16 17:15 ` Andreas Schwab
2013-04-16 17:20 ` Glenn Morris
2013-04-16 18:11 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-04-19 18:29 ` Andreas Schwab
2013-04-19 18:49 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-04-19 18:57 ` Glenn Morris
2013-04-19 19:05 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-04-19 19:08 ` Glenn Morris
2013-04-20 1:48 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-04-19 20:58 ` Andreas Schwab
2013-04-20 6:37 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-04-20 10:44 ` Andreas Schwab
2013-04-20 10:56 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-04-20 11:55 ` Andreas Schwab
2013-04-20 12:31 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-04-20 13:24 ` Andreas Schwab
2013-04-20 15:43 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-04-20 15:56 ` Andreas Schwab
2013-04-24 5:05 ` Ken Raeburn
2013-04-24 13:12 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-04-24 17:06 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2013-04-24 18:54 ` Stefan Monnier
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