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: Canonical location for emacs-version string in source tree? Date: Sat, 22 May 2010 00:33:16 +0300 Message-ID: <83ocg9ym77.fsf@gnu.org> References: <5E9E2370-F371-46DE-A970-3FB825E90BBF@raeburn.org> <83632iqwpe.fsf@gnu.org> <32115842-89C0-4628-9523-C9C209FB4B0D@raeburn.org> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1274477838 3362 80.91.229.12 (21 May 2010 21:37:18 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 21 May 2010 21:37:18 +0000 (UTC) Cc: raeburn@raeburn.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri May 21 23:37:16 2010 connect(): No such file or directory Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OFZu8-0006GQ-BQ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 21 May 2010 23:37:16 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:38446 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OFZu7-0007QL-Jm for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 21 May 2010 17:37:15 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=36324 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OFZqW-0005mD-8X for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 21 May 2010 17:33:35 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OFZqR-0002rz-QK for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 21 May 2010 17:33:29 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout21.012.net.il ([80.179.55.169]:46175) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OFZqR-0002rd-GG for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 21 May 2010 17:33:27 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout21.012.net.il by a-mtaout21.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0L2S00L00GPBM200@a-mtaout21.012.net.il> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 22 May 2010 00:33:18 +0300 (IDT) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([77.127.33.125]) by a-mtaout21.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0L2S00LAZH7GM110@a-mtaout21.012.net.il>; Sat, 22 May 2010 00:33:18 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 (beta) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:125010 Archived-At: > From: Stefan Monnier > Cc: Eli Zaretskii , "Emacs Dev \[emacs-devel\]" > Date: Fri, 21 May 2010 16:19:32 -0400 > > > "emacs --version" would print out the version if it was set, otherwise > > ignore the option; it does this early in main(), before Lisp code is > > loaded. The "make install" rule always runs "emacs --version" to > > figure out the DOC file name. If you build with CANNOT_DUMP, the > > emacs binary that gets run hasn't had the basic Lisp code pre-loaded > > into it. So "emacs --version" pops up a window. > > A simple fix is to get rid of the DOC-NN.NN.NN madness and just use > "DOC" as the file name. Any objection? Would the emacs-NN.NN.NN madness go with it as well?