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#19989
25.0.50; Build instructions on Windows
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Reported by: Ilya Zakharevich <nospam-abuse <at> ilyaz.org>
Date: Tue, 3 Mar 2015 16:48:01 UTC
Severity: minor
Found in version 25.0.50
Done: Noam Postavsky <npostavs <at> users.sourceforge.net>
Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.
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> Date: Fri, 06 Mar 2015 13:16:36 +0200
> From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
> Cc: 19989 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
>
> > Date: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 01:59:52 -0800
> > From: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya <at> math.berkeley.edu>
> > Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>, 19989 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> >
> > A) apparently, the download and build instructions changes not so
> > long ago, so what google finds are obsolete irrelevant
> > instructions.
>
> The build instructions changed in May 2013, almost 2 years ago.
>
> > The warning which nt/configure.bat gives is not specific enough (at
> > least when shown on background of all the [wrong] info found by googling):
>
> If no one complains about something major for the MinGW/MSYS build
> when Emacs 24.5 is released, nt/configure.bat will be deleted from the
> repository, so it won't be able to confuse anyone anymore.
Done (except that instead of deleting configure.bat, I took your
advice and left it with just the reference to the new build
procedure). All the other support files, mainly makefile.w32-in in
the various directories, were deleted from the master branch.
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