Re: minor observations on Mac build of 22.0.99

[Andreas Schwab]

Ken Raeburn <address@hidden> writes:

> 1) The installer adds files to /Applications/Emacs.app if it already
> exists, rather than replacing that tree completely.  On one of my
> machines, /Applications/Emacs.app/Contents/MacOS/bin now contains  both
> emacs-22.0.91 and emacs-22.0.99.  If I move Emacs.app to the  trash before
> installing, the result is cleaner, with just  emacs-22.0.99.  (Similarly
> for other files: the old DOC file, some  elisp and image files, etc., were
> left over from the old version.)
>
> Is this intentional or expected, or a bug?

What do you mean with "installer"?  Do you use make-package?

> 2) Out of curiosity, I compared the Intel and PPC trees with diff.  Not
> only were the executables different, which was expected of  course, but
> also leim/quail had differences in the .el.gz and .elc  files.  Picking a
> .el.gz file at random, the only difference I found  was in the date stamp.

The files could be compressed with `gzip -n' which would leave out the
time stamp.

Andreas.

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