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Explain in nt/INSTALL.MSYS why --prefix should be used with Windows builds.

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Eli Zaretskii 2013-05-25 10:34:34 +03:00
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@ -46,7 +46,8 @@ Windows 9X as well).
It is always preferable to use --prefix to configure Emacs for
some specific location of its installed tree; the default
/usr/local is not suitable for Windows.
/usr/local is not suitable for Windows (see the detailed
instructions for the reasons).
You can pass other options to the configure script. Here's a
typical example (for an in-place debug build):
@ -324,7 +325,17 @@ Windows 9X as well).
./nt/msysconfig.sh --prefix=PREFIX ...
Here PREFIX is the place where you eventually want to install Emacs
once built, e.g. d:/usr.
once built, e.g. d:/usr. We recommend to always use --prefix when
building Emacs on Windows, because the default '/usr/local' is not
appropriate for Windows: it will be mapped by MSYS to something like
C:\MSYS\local, and it will defeat the purpose of PREFIX, which is to
install programs in a single coherent tree resembling Posix systems.
Such a single-tree installation makes sure all the other programs
and packages ported from GNU or Unix systems will work seemlessly
together. Where exactly is the root of that tree on your system is
soimething only you, the user who builds Emacs, can know, and the
Emacs build process cannot guess, because usually there's no
'/usr/local' directory on any drive on Windows systems.
You can pass additional options to the configure script, for the
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