Re: "Official" binary of Emacs-24.4 for MS-Windows

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2014 22:21:49 +0200
> From: Dani Moncayo <address@hidden>
> Cc: Emacs development discussions <address@hidden>
> 
> >> To produce the binary distribution, should I do a plain "make
> >> install"? Or perhaps:
> >>   make install GZIP_INFO= GZIP_PROG=
> >> ?
> >
> > I don't see a reason not to compress files.  Emacs can display and use
> > them just fine, even if gzip.exe is not installed/available, right?
> 
> I've always used "GZIP_INFO= GZIP_PROG=".  Now I've tried a plain
> "make install", and something goes wrong: if I open the installed
> Emacs "runemacs -Q" and do "C-h r", the manual does not open.  The
> *info* buffer is empty and the *Messages* buffer has:
>   user-error: No such node or anchor: Top
> 
> I've just made a second install (from the same build), this time with
> "GZIP_INFO= GZIP_PROG=".  In this installation the above problem does
> not happen.

I don't object to not compressing the files, if compressing them
causes trouble on some systems.