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Re: make on Windows vs. Linux
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
Re: make on Windows vs. Linux |
Date: |
Sat, 10 Jul 2010 18:57:13 +0300 |
> Date: Sat, 10 Jul 2010 09:47:02 -0600
> From: Christoph <address@hidden>
>
> Under Linux I like the fact, that I can check out, for example, the
> trunk, make a change, run make and then run Emacs from the src/
> directory directly without installing it via make install.
>
> Under Windows, this is not possible. After running make the binaries are
> not in the bin/ directory. I have to run make install to get everything
> in the right place. But an in-place make install also adds a Start menu
> shortcut. For test builds or branches this is just polluting my start menu.
>
> Is there any good reason why the Windows make could not result in Emacs
> runnable 'in-place' out-of-the-box? And make install could add the
> shortcut and (if applicable) move the appropriate files to the directory
> specified as the install path during configure?
>
> Or am I missing something?
I think you are missing the fact that you can run Emacs in-place from
a subdirectory of src:
src\oo\i386\emacs -Q
or
src\oo-spd\i386\emacs -Q
(the former if you configured --no-opt, the latter if without).