Re: Moving homebrewn binaries and question about building documentation

[Eric Lilja]

Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > From: Eric Lilja <address@hidden>
> > Date: Sat, 21 Jul 2007 16:56:00 +0200
> >
> > As you can see I had a trailing / in my INSTALL_DIR so 
> > install tries to copy like this (just pasting one example):
> > cp -f oo-spd/i386/etags.exe c:/emacs//bin
> > Notice the double forward slash. It didn't seem to affect copying, 
> > though, and I will simply remove the trailing slash from INSTALL_DIR in 
> > my script (I thought it would check for a trailing slash and add one if 
> > there wasn't one but it seems it adds one regardless).
>
> This is not a problem, as you've found out, but it's better to not
> have a trailing slash in INSTALL_DIR.

I hear you. I have fixed my script in this regard and added a comment
about it should I forget it.

> > Also, I still have many CVS directories in the subdirectories.
>
> Only in etc/ and leim/.  The Unix "make install" removes them after
> copying (see the `install:' target in the top-level Makefile.in), but
> the Windows build does not want to rely on the utilities required for
> that.  If you have them, you can remove those after "make install"
> finishes.

And info as well, anyway, what I wanted to do was not to nitpick but ask 
you if you know of a clever way I can remove these directories from 
inside my script? It's a bash script run under cygwin bash. I'm not 
really a unix person, so I don't know what I'm talking about here, but 
maybe something involving find and rm? If I can get rid of my standalone 
application for removing these directories and incorporate its 
functionality in my cvs build script, that would be nice.

> > I also 
> > noticed two empty top-level directories named lock and data, 
> > respectively. These are not present in the official emacs 22.1 windows 
> > binary package. Comments?
>
> These are created by two explicit lines in nt/makefile, but I don't
> know why.  Anybody?

I will leave them untouched for now, but if they are not needed it would 
be nice if they were not created, of course.

You're a great asset, Eli! Thanks!

- Eric