From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Christoph Scholtes <cschol2112@googlemail.com>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: addpm.exe missing from installation
Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2012 23:05:41 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83r4tnrkyy.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4FD4E345.6000201@gmail.com>
> Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2012 12:11:17 -0600
> From: Christoph Scholtes <cschol2112@googlemail.com>
> CC: emacs-devel@gnu.org
>
> On 6/10/2012 10:03 AM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>
> > Sorry, I don't follow: aren't you invoking "make install"? If not,
> > what Make command are you using that doesn't work?
>
> No. When creating the binary distribution, I do not want to install the
> shortcuts in my start menu. That was the main reason for creating the
> install-bin target to allow to create an in-place installation from
> which a distribution can be created without creating the shortcuts. make
> install will run make install-bin and then install-shortcuts, so we get
> the normal, expected behavior including shortcuts.
So what are the commands you invoke when you prepare a binary
distribution? Armed with that knowledge, I can find a way to keep
both "make install" and your procedure happy.
> > In general, addpm.exe is not needed, unless one wants to create or
> > update the shortcuts, which is why I didn't hesitate to move that
> > command (in its previous place, it interfered with parallel execution
> > of "make install", which was the motivation for the change).
>
> We should include it in the binary distribution, right?
Yes, definitely.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-06-10 20:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-06-10 14:39 addpm.exe missing from installation Christoph Scholtes
2012-06-10 16:03 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-06-10 18:11 ` Christoph Scholtes
2012-06-10 20:05 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2012-06-10 20:38 ` Christoph Scholtes
2012-06-16 13:18 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-06-19 3:27 ` Christoph Scholtes
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