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Re: Next pretest, and branching plans
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
Re: Next pretest, and branching plans |
Date: |
Wed, 17 Mar 2010 00:14:29 -0400 |
> Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2010 18:29:17 -0600
> From: Christoph <address@hidden>
> Cc: address@hidden, address@hidden, address@hidden
>
> >> - added an option "--distfiles [path to file, for example libXpm.dll]"
> >> to configure.bat.
> >>
> > That's gratuitous, I think: modern Windows shells are powerful enough
> > to let you write a FOR loop looking for libXpm.dll along PATH.
> >
> This assumes that libXpm.dll is actually somwhere on the PATH, which it
> might or might not be (and I might not put it on the path).
If it's not on PATH, it's in the directory where you have the Emacs
binary.
> I think the
> command line option for configure.bat is way more flexible for one's
> individual build environment
Yes, but flexibility comes at a price: one needs _always_ to type that
argument. Why impose this inconvenience on the user?
> >> Also, is there any way to get the version number from a file contained
> >> in the source tar ball? Then make dist would always output a zip file
> >> properly named according to the current version.
> >>
> > Again, one of the variants of the FOR command should do the trick.
> >
> Could you elaborate on this solution? Thanks!
Type "for /?" from the cmd prompt, and read there, especially about
"for /f". It's too long to post that info here.
> PS: As for the "powerful Windows shells"...not before Windows 7 (or
> Vista?) with Powershell did Windows ever have a powerful shell... ;)
I was talking about cmd, not about Powershell.
- Re: Next pretest, and branching plans, (continued)
- Re: Next pretest, and branching plans, Christoph, 2010/03/13
- Re: Next pretest, and branching plans, Eli Zaretskii, 2010/03/13
- Re: Next pretest, and branching plans, Stefan Monnier, 2010/03/13
- Re: Next pretest, and branching plans, Eli Zaretskii, 2010/03/13
- Re: Next pretest, and branching plans, Jason Rumney, 2010/03/13
- Re: Next pretest, and branching plans, Christoph, 2010/03/13
- Re: Next pretest, and branching plans, Jason Rumney, 2010/03/13
- Re: Next pretest, and branching plans, Eli Zaretskii, 2010/03/14
- Re: Next pretest, and branching plans, Christoph, 2010/03/16
- Re: Next pretest, and branching plans,
Eli Zaretskii <=
- Re: Next pretest, and branching plans, Jason Rumney, 2010/03/17