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bug#16772: Failure in "make install" on MS-Windows
From: |
Glenn Morris |
Subject: |
bug#16772: Failure in "make install" on MS-Windows |
Date: |
Mon, 17 Feb 2014 14:06:53 -0500 |
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Gnus (www.gnus.org), GNU Emacs (www.gnu.org/software/emacs/) |
Dani Moncayo wrote:
> If you want the installation tree to go to a place that is
> different from the one specified by --prefix, say
>
> make install prefix=/where/ever/you/want
Seems weird to me for Emacs to be recommending that.
Why would one not specify the right prefix at configure time...?
>> And if you try, it will say:
>>
>> configure: error: expected an absolute directory name for --prefix:
>> ../myinstalldir
>
> No, it says something different: I've just tried this
[...]
> make install prefix=/c/tmp/dir2 GZIP_INFO= GZIP_PROG=
We seem to be having a failure to communicate.
"I ran make install with an absolute prefix" has no relevance to
"Here's what happens if you run configure with a relative prefix"
> And then I've applied the patch sent by Juanma, and tried again. This
> time the installation seems to be successful, and I see the file
> "<my-install-dir>/share/emacs/24.3.50/README.W32", as expected.
Hooray.
- bug#16772: Failure in "make install" on MS-Windows, (continued)
- bug#16772: Failure in "make install" on MS-Windows, Glenn Morris, 2014/02/17
- bug#16772: Failure in "make install" on MS-Windows, Dani Moncayo, 2014/02/17
- bug#16772: Failure in "make install" on MS-Windows, Dani Moncayo, 2014/02/17
- bug#16772: Failure in "make install" on MS-Windows, Juanma Barranquero, 2014/02/17
- bug#16772: Failure in "make install" on MS-Windows, Dani Moncayo, 2014/02/17
- bug#16772: Failure in "make install" on MS-Windows, Juanma Barranquero, 2014/02/17
- bug#16772: Failure in "make install" on MS-Windows,
Glenn Morris <=
- bug#16772: Failure in "make install" on MS-Windows, Eli Zaretskii, 2014/02/17
- bug#16772: Failure in "make install" on MS-Windows, Eli Zaretskii, 2014/02/17
- bug#16772: Failure in "make install" on MS-Windows, Glenn Morris, 2014/02/17
- bug#16772: Failure in "make install" on MS-Windows, Glenn Morris, 2014/02/17
bug#16772: Failure in "make install" on MS-Windows, Eli Zaretskii, 2014/02/16
bug#16772: Failure in "make install" on MS-Windows, Dani Moncayo, 2014/02/17