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Re: Avoid duplicate emacs.exe / emacs-$version.exe
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Phillip Lord |
Subject: |
Re: Avoid duplicate emacs.exe / emacs-$version.exe |
Date: |
Sat, 28 Mar 2020 20:13:09 +0000 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.90 (gnu/linux) |
Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:
>> Right now in my hard disk I have two copies of statically linked Emacs.
>
> (This is a secondary point, but Emacs is not linked statically, at
> least not by default. The large size is mostly due to debug info, and
> you can strip it if you want, although I don't recommend doing so for
> a pretest version, because you cannot produce meaningful backtraces
> from a stripped binary.)
The pretests should be stripped actually. I use make install for
snapshot builds. The ones with an actual version number are make
install-strip'd.
> This means your installation procedure is modified, or maybe you
> installed a binary someone else produced, in which case the archive
> used to package the binaries didn't support hard links. You can
> restore the hard link by removing onhe of the copies and making a hard
> link to the remaining copy under the other name.
Incidentally, I build, run and (sort of) test the Windows distribution
under NTFS compression which all works fine. If these circumstances, I
think, even the difference between two files or hard-linked is moot.
Phil
- Avoid duplicate emacs.exe / emacs-$version.exe, Juan José García-Ripoll, 2020/03/28
- Re: Avoid duplicate emacs.exe / emacs-$version.exe, Eli Zaretskii, 2020/03/28
- Re: Avoid duplicate emacs.exe / emacs-$version.exe, Juan José García-Ripoll, 2020/03/28
- Re: Avoid duplicate emacs.exe / emacs-$version.exe, Phillip Lord, 2020/03/28
- Re: Avoid duplicate emacs.exe / emacs-$version.exe, Eli Zaretskii, 2020/03/28
- Re: Avoid duplicate emacs.exe / emacs-$version.exe, Juan José García-Ripoll, 2020/03/29
- Re: Avoid duplicate emacs.exe / emacs-$version.exe, Phillip Lord, 2020/03/29
- Re: Avoid duplicate emacs.exe / emacs-$version.exe, Eli Zaretskii, 2020/03/29
Re: Avoid duplicate emacs.exe / emacs-$version.exe, Eli Zaretskii, 2020/03/28
- Re: Avoid duplicate emacs.exe / emacs-$version.exe,
Phillip Lord <=
Re: Avoid duplicate emacs.exe / emacs-$version.exe, Eli Zaretskii, 2020/03/28
Re: Avoid duplicate emacs.exe / emacs-$version.exe, Phillip Lord, 2020/03/29
Re: Avoid duplicate emacs.exe / emacs-$version.exe, Eli Zaretskii, 2020/03/29
Re: Avoid duplicate emacs.exe / emacs-$version.exe, Phillip Lord, 2020/03/29
Re: Avoid duplicate emacs.exe / emacs-$version.exe, Juan José García-Ripoll, 2020/03/28