Re: Canonical location for emacs-version string in source tree?

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Stefan Monnier <address@hidden>
> Date: Fri, 21 May 2010 20:54:00 -0400
> Cc: address@hidden, address@hidden
> 
> >> > "emacs --version" would print out the version if it was set, otherwise
> >> > ignore the option; it does this early in main(), before Lisp code is
> >> > loaded.  The "make install" rule always runs "emacs --version" to
> >> > figure out the DOC file name.  If you build with CANNOT_DUMP, the
> >> > emacs binary that gets run hasn't had the basic Lisp code pre-loaded
> >> > into it.  So "emacs --version" pops up a window.
> >> A simple fix is to get rid of the DOC-NN.NN.NN madness and just use
> >> "DOC" as the file name.  Any objection?
> > Would the emacs-NN.NN.NN madness go with it as well?
> 
> I'd be in favor of it, tho I don't really care.

Without its companion DOC-NN.NN.NN, emacs-NN.NN.NN is not really fully
operational.