Re: windows installer

[Phillip Lord]

Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:

>> From: address@hidden (Phillip Lord)
>> Cc: address@hidden,  address@hidden,  address@hidden
>> Date: Sat, 25 Nov 2017 11:08:12 +0000
>> 
>> >> (defconst emacs-build-system
>> >>           (if (file-exists-p "~/.emacs-build-system-name")
>> >>               (with-temp-buffer
>> >>                 (insert-file-contents "~/.emacs-build-system-name")
>> >>                 (buffer-string))
>> >>              (system-name)))
>> >
>> > Where do you want to put this?  Are you going to patch the sources
>> > from which you produce the binaries?
>> 
>> master
>
> Then I think a much better way would be to access some environment
> variable instead of a file.  (Assuming there's no way for you to
> arrange for that system to return some string of your liking as the
> system name -- if that's possible, it would be preferable, because
> having in our code something that caters to building installable
> binaries on MS-Windows is not something I'd do happily.)


Hmm, yes. Changing the system name seems to work and doesn't seem to
break anything. This seems like an easier solution. Sorry for noise.

Phil