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24.3.50; Site load-path pieces differ in MSYS build

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Juanma Barranquero <lekktu <at> gmail.com>
Cc: rcopley <at> gmail.com, monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca, 14513 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#14513: 24.3.50; Site load-path pieces differ in MSYS build
Date: Thu, 06 Jun 2013 18:37:15 +0300

> From: Juanma Barranquero <lekktu <at> gmail.com>
> Date: Wed, 5 Jun 2013 01:55:32 +0200
> Cc: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>, rcopley <at> gmail.com, 14513 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> 
> I use ../site-lisp all the time. In /Devel/emacs/repo (which is the
> shared bzr repo) I have site-lisp, and the checkouts for emacs-24, an
> optimized build of trunk, a debug one, etc. (all built in-place). I
> also have older releases, but they don't cause me trouble with .elc
> because when I run an older Emacs is usually to check something and I
> run them under -Q (or -q --no-site-file).
> 
> With the MSYS build, I don't really want to do "make install" (too
> slow)

If "make install" is too slow, perhaps try disabling compression of
Lisp and Info files.

> and if I do, it's in-place, so the ability to share installation
> dirs between releases does not really do anything for me (not that
> is not a great feature, just that it doesn't match my use).

Anyway, I see nothing specific to Windows in this usage pattern.

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