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?
> Would the emacs-NN.NN.NN madness go with it as well?

I'd be in favor of it, tho I don't really care.


        Stefan