From: Bug Dout <buggsy2@mailinator.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: IZarc problem extracting emacs-24.2.tar.xz
Date: Fri, 01 Feb 2013 08:20:51 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <v8uboc4ronw.fsf@mailinator.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: mailman.18502.1359407692.855.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Peter Dyballa <Peter_Dyballa@Web.DE> writes:
> Am 28.01.2013 um 21:34 schrieb Bug Dout:
>
>> I noticed that some files were missing. For instance, .../etc/{DOC,DOC-X} were not extracted.
>
> These files are not source code files or needed to build GNU Emacs so
> they are not included in the sources archive.
Your comment is correct and irrelevant. Those files are needed when
using Emacs; and few users of Emacs on Windows will want to build Emacs
anyway. There is something quite wrong with IZArc. Use 7Zip or similar
instead.
--
Nothing unites the English like war. Nothing divides them like
Picasso.
~ Hugh Mills
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-02-01 16:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-01-28 20:34 IZarc problem extracting emacs-24.2.tar.xz Bug Dout
2013-01-28 21:12 ` Peter Dyballa
[not found] ` <mailman.18502.1359407692.855.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2013-02-01 16:20 ` Bug Dout [this message]
2013-02-02 2:03 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-02-02 8:18 ` Eli Zaretskii
[not found] ` <mailman.18836.1359793101.855.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2013-02-20 1:43 ` David Combs
2013-02-20 18:40 ` Eli Zaretskii
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