Re: on emacs 28 for windows

[Wayne Harris]

phillip.lord@russet.org.uk writes:

> On 2020-08-26 07:20, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>>> Date: Tue, 25 Aug 2020 21:58:28 -0300
>>> From: Wayne Harris via "Emacs development discussions."
>>> <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
>>> I don't remember where I got Windows binaries for the GNU EMACS 28.  
>>> It
>>> must have been here?  I just want to report one thing I found in
>>> *Messages*.
>>> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
>>> Warning: Lisp directory
>>> 'c:/msys64/home/Administrator/emacs-build/git/master/lisp': No such 
>>> file or directory
>>> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
>>> It seems the person who compiled must have left this in the
>>> compiled
>>> binary.  I don't think this is my configuration.
>> I don't think I understand how did you arrive at this message.  Does
>> it appear if you start "emacs -Q"?  If not, what needs to be done to
>> get this message?

It does.

C:\sys\emacs.28\bin>emacs -Q
Warning: Lisp directory 
'c:/msys64/home/Administrator/emacs-build/git/master/lisp': No such file or 
directory
[... C-x C-c ...]
C:\sys\emacs.28\bin>

> If it is doing this, then it's buggy, so it would be good to
> understand why. I am not going it from a clean Emacs snapshot that
> I've just downloaded. I'm a little surprised, though, that Emacs knows
> about that directory at all.

I would guess this path is known to whoever compiled it.