Re: MS-Windows build using Posix configury

[Dmitry Gutov]

On 16.05.2013 19:41, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > From: Dmitry Gutov <address@hidden>
> > Cc: address@hidden
> > Date: Thu, 16 May 2013 18:43:24 +0400
> >
> > >      It is always preferable to use --prefix to configure Emacs for
> > >      some specific location of its installed tree; the default
> > >      /usr/local is not suitable for Windows.
> >
> > What's going to happen if I disregard this recommendation? Will build
> > fail?
>
> No, I don't think the build will fail.  --prefix is only important for
> "make install".

If the installation will fail, maybe the prefix should default to some 
reasonable directory within the Emacs tree. Would it be hard to do that?

> > I've taken a habit of running Emacs from the trunk\bin directory
> > on Windows, I just add it to PATH. Will that stop working?
>
> I don't know, I never tried such a strange arrangement with the Posix
> build.  Why don't you simply run Emacs from src instead?  That is how
> Emacs is supposed to be run uninstalled.  Otherwise, you will be
> copying a lot of files for no good reason.

Ah, okay, thanks. That's how I run Emacs on GNU/Linux.

> And anyway, how is running from trunk/bin related to --prefix?

Technically, it's unrelated, I guess, so this was just a question from 
someone who has been using the NT port for some time. AFAICT, the "make 
install" step is mandatory to running Emacs built that way.

> > >   (We recommend that you refrain from installing the MSYS Texinfo
> > >   package, which is part of msys-base, because it might produce mixed
> > >   EOL format when installing Info files.  Instead, install the MinGW
> > >   port of Texinfo, see the ezwinports URL below.)
> >
> > How am I supposed to do that? MinGW-Get installer only allows me to
> > check or uncheck the whole "MSYS Base" category, not the individual
> > packages.
>
> I don't know; I don't use mingw-get.  Perhaps uninstall the Texinfo
> package after installing msys-base (assuming mingw-get has an
> uninstall option that can uninstall a single package)?  If that
> doesn't work, I suggest to ask on the mingw-users mailing list, the
> developer of mingw-get is reading that.

Indeed, "mingw-get remove msys-texinfo" seems to have done that.
If having to remove that package manually (as opposed to not installing 
it) is going to be a common situation, maybe INSTALL.MSYS should reflect 
that.