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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>
Cc: schwab@linux-m68k.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Installing the Emacs executable
Date: Fri, 19 Apr 2013 22:05:14 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <83ip3i1gut.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <31mwsubb7b.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org>

> From: Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>
> Cc: Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>,  emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Fri, 19 Apr 2013 14:57:12 -0400
> 
> Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> 
> > This will overwrite the previous Emacs binary in src as well (and its
> > DOC in etc), won't it?  Do we really want to toss the possibility of
> > being able to easily run previous builds of the same version?
> 
> Well yes, that is basically the motivation for the build number
> existing, as I understand it. As I said, I have personally never found
> this a useful feature. Does any other project do this?

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.



  reply	other threads:[~2013-04-19 19:05 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 [this message]
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
2013-04-24 18:54                 ` Stefan Monnier

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