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: make on Windows vs. Linux Date: Sat, 10 Jul 2010 18:57:13 +0300 Message-ID: <83wrt3uy7a.fsf@gnu.org> References: <4C3895F6.9000909@gmail.com> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1278777579 3265 80.91.229.12 (10 Jul 2010 15:59:39 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 10 Jul 2010 15:59:39 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Christoph Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Jul 10 17:59:36 2010 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 1OXcSl-0007Se-J1 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 10 Jul 2010 17:59:35 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:33553 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OXcSk-0002fn-VW for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 10 Jul 2010 11:59:35 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=51628 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OXcSf-0002fg-12 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 10 Jul 2010 11:59:30 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OXcSd-0002jq-M3 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 10 Jul 2010 11:59:28 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout23.012.net.il ([80.179.55.175]:36162) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OXcSd-0002jV-Dm for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 10 Jul 2010 11:59:27 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout23.012.net.il by a-mtaout23.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0L5C00D00MZTF000@a-mtaout23.012.net.il> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 10 Jul 2010 18:59:16 +0300 (IDT) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([77.127.120.144]) by a-mtaout23.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0L5C00888N2RREA0@a-mtaout23.012.net.il>; Sat, 10 Jul 2010 18:59:16 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: <4C3895F6.9000909@gmail.com> 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:126997 Archived-At: > Date: Sat, 10 Jul 2010 09:47:02 -0600 > From: Christoph > > Under Linux I like the fact, that I can check out, for example, the > trunk, make a change, run make and then run Emacs from the src/ > directory directly without installing it via make install. > > Under Windows, this is not possible. After running make the binaries are > not in the bin/ directory. I have to run make install to get everything > in the right place. But an in-place make install also adds a Start menu > shortcut. For test builds or branches this is just polluting my start menu. > > Is there any good reason why the Windows make could not result in Emacs > runnable 'in-place' out-of-the-box? And make install could add the > shortcut and (if applicable) move the appropriate files to the directory > specified as the install path during configure? > > Or am I missing something? I think you are missing the fact that you can run Emacs in-place from a subdirectory of src: src\oo\i386\emacs -Q or src\oo-spd\i386\emacs -Q (the former if you configured --no-opt, the latter if without).