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: runemacs.exe without installing Emacs Date: Sat, 02 Apr 2011 21:58:02 +0300 Message-ID: <83tyegwked.fsf@gnu.org> References: <86hbag1yip.fsf@gmail.com> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1301770707 10070 80.91.229.12 (2 Apr 2011 18:58:27 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 2 Apr 2011 18:58:27 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Christoph Scholtes Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Apr 02 20:58:23 2011 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 1Q661Y-0008Jd-3b for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 02 Apr 2011 20:58:16 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:34621 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Q661X-0000Ou-Dr for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 02 Apr 2011 14:58:15 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=49593 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Q661P-0000KG-0Y for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 02 Apr 2011 14:58:08 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Q661M-0007k5-2Y for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 02 Apr 2011 14:58:04 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout20.012.net.il ([80.179.55.166]:44723) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Q661L-0007jS-Rt for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 02 Apr 2011 14:58:04 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout20.012.net.il by a-mtaout20.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0LJ100500GDTFI00@a-mtaout20.012.net.il> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 02 Apr 2011 21:58:02 +0300 (IDT) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([77.126.47.180]) by a-mtaout20.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0LJ1004TBGOMQJB0@a-mtaout20.012.net.il>; Sat, 02 Apr 2011 21:57:59 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: <86hbag1yip.fsf@gmail.com> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 (beta) X-Received-From: 80.179.55.166 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:138070 Archived-At: > From: Christoph Scholtes > Date: Sat, 02 Apr 2011 09:08:46 -0600 > > I always run the trunk Emacs locally without installing on Windows. Just saying "make install" without specifying INSTALL_DIR will "install" the binaries in the `bin' subdirectory of the top-level directory. Is that good enough? > Right now, when running it from the build directory `nt/oo-spd/i386', it > can't find `emacs.exe'. It looks for emacs.exe in the same directory where runemacs.exe lives. > Can we either > > let `runemacs.exe' check not only its current directory, but also the > `src' build directory for an `emacs.exe' This is not easy, since the `i386' part is not known by the binary, AFAIK. > or > > add a command line option for `runemacs.exe' to provide a path to > `emacs.exe' This is possible. We could, for example, add a -dir switch that would tell runemacs.exe in which directory to look for emacs.exe. That is, assuming that the "make install" technique somehow does not satisfy your needs.