Re: emacs-29 2cec78254e: ; * nt/INSTALL.W64: Fix wording.

[Arash Esbati]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

> branch: emacs-29
> commit 2cec78254ea7f85180748a4fe3fab6eb07982b2f
> Author: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
> Commit: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
>
>     ; * nt/INSTALL.W64: Fix wording.
> ---
>  nt/INSTALL.W64 | 37 +++++++++++++++++++++----------------
>  1 file changed, 21 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/nt/INSTALL.W64 b/nt/INSTALL.W64
> index b1f5dabaaf..b543034e47 100644
> --- a/nt/INSTALL.W64
> +++ b/nt/INSTALL.W64
> [...]
> -The '--prefix' option specifies a location for the resulting binary files,
> -which 'make install' will use - in this example we set it to 
> C:\emacs\emacs-26.
> -If a prefix is not specified the files will be put in the standard Unix
> -directories located in your C:\msys64 directory, but this is not recommended.
> +The '--prefix' option specifies a location for the resulting binary
> +files, which 'make install' will use - in this example we set it to
> +C:\programs\emacs.  If a prefix is not specified the files will be put
> +in the standard Unix directories located in your C:\msys64 directory,
> +but this is not recommended.

May I ask why the text above talks about "the resulting binary files"?
For me, the '--prefix' option behaves on Windows the same way it does on
Unix systems, as described in the INSTALL file[1]:

  The '--prefix=PREFIXDIR' option specifies where the installation process
  should put emacs and its data files.  This defaults to '/usr/local'.
  - Emacs (and the other utilities users run) go in PREFIXDIR/bin
    (unless the '--exec-prefix' option says otherwise).
  - The architecture-independent files go in PREFIXDIR/share/emacs/VERSION
    (where VERSION is the version number of Emacs, like '23.2').
  - The architecture-dependent files go in
    PREFIXDIR/libexec/emacs/VERSION/CONFIGURATION
    (where CONFIGURATION is the configuration name, like
    i686-pc-linux-gnu), unless the '--exec-prefix' option says otherwise.

Best, Arash

P.S.: I admit I've never used '--exec-prefix' in addition to '--prefix'.

Footnotes:
[1]  http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/tree/INSTALL#n423