Re: Canonical location for emacs-version string in source tree?

[Stefan Monnier]

> "emacs --version" would print out the version if it was set, otherwise
> ignore the option; it does this early in main(), before Lisp code is
> loaded.  The "make install" rule always runs "emacs --version" to
> figure out the DOC file name.  If you build with CANNOT_DUMP, the
> emacs binary that gets run hasn't had the basic Lisp code pre-loaded
> into it.  So "emacs --version" pops up a window.

A simple fix is to get rid of the DOC-NN.NN.NN madness and just use
"DOC" as the file name.  Any objection?


        Stefan