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#25548
25.1; Wrong Emacs version for Emacs 25.1.2 (?)
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Reported by: Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>
Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2017 21:01:02 UTC
Severity: wishlist
Found in version 25.1
Done: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.
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(To be sure, I've downloaded the zip file twice now, and extracted it.)
I got it from here: http://gnu.mirrors.pair.com/gnu/emacs/windows/
This is the zip file I picked up:
emacs-25.1-2-x86_64-w64-mingw32.zip 29-Nov-2016 14:12 91M
But when I open Emacs and use M-x emacs-version it tells me that it is
Emacs 21.1.1. And you can see that below, as well.
What gives? Is this correct or a bug? How are users supposed to
understand the version numbering - is this 25.1.1 or 25.1.2 or something
else?
And if this is not 25.1.2, where can users get 25.1.2?
In GNU Emacs 25.1.1 (x86_64-w64-mingw32)
of 2016-11-15
Windowing system distributor `Microsoft Corp.', version 6.1.7601
Configured using:
`configure --without-dbus --without-compress-install 'CFLAGS=-O2
-static -g3''
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> Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2017 10:13:04 -0800 (PST)
> From: Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>
> Cc: npostavs <at> users.sourceforge.net, 25548 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
>
> > > Show does a user or Lisp code see those options from _within_
> > > Emacs?
> >
> > With "M-: system-configuration-options RET".
>
> I see this from `C-h v system-configuration-options":
> "--without-dbus --without-compress-install 'CFLAGS=-O2 -static -g3'"
>
> How does that tell you anything about the label "25.1.1",
> which appears in the output of `M-x emacs-version' or
> the label "25.1-2" that appears in the zip-file name?
It tells you what the version number means.
> > > > See the node "Version Info" in the ELisp manual.
> > >
> > > The only thing there (that I can see) that remotely refers
> > > to something like "25.1.2" is the undescribed, unexplained
> > > _output_ of `(emacs-version)':
> > >
> > > "GNU Emacs 24.5.1 (x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.16)
> > > ^^^^^^
> > > of 2015-06-01"
> >
> > No, it also explains how to distinguish official releases from pretest
> > versions.
>
> That's not what I said. It tells you nothing about what
> "24.5.1" (or in the current case, "25.1.1") means in the
> output of `emacs-version'. And it tells you nothing about
> what (in the current case) "25.1-2" means in the name of
> the zip file.
It does to me.
> > > Can you point me to the passage that explains the 25.1-2 in the
> > > zip name, which I've not been able to find?
> >
> > That's the "-n-" part above.
>
> Yes, n = 25.1-2, here. But where is the explanation of it,
> saying what n = 25.1-2 means?
The explanation is in the value of system-configuration-options.
> GNU Emacs 25.1.1 (x86_64-w64-mingw32) of 2016-11-15
>
> It says 25.1.1, not 25.1.2.
Yes.
> Still looking for an explanation of such numbering, in both
> the output of `emacs-version' and the zip-file name.
Time to finish this nonsense.
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