Re: Process to build standalone Emacs + deps in Windows

[Juan José García-Ripoll]

Phillip Lord <address@hidden> writes:
> In reply to two of your emails, sorry:
>
> +    if dependencies:
> +        print(f"Package {pkg} depends on:")
> +        for d in dependencies:
> +            print(f" -> {d}")
> +
>
> I wouldn't add this. It's only useful some of the time, not in normal
> usage, and anyway "pactree" does the same thing better.

Right now the scripts do not provide this information but do emit a line
"Adding *package name*" I personally find it more informative to at
least instruct why the package is added. If pactree is more useful, it
is not used anywhere in the current code.

> +    ## exclude files
> +    excludes=['lib/*.a', # No files to link against
> +              'lib/*/*.exe', # No hidden executables
> +              'libexec/*/*.exe',
>  [...]
>
> This list would need to go near the front, so we have a clean
> configuration section. It also displays the key problem -- it's really
> long and non obvious so a maintenance burden

Not really. The *.exe can be deduced from the pacman files.

> If we just did a few big top level directories, would that not solve all
> the problems.

I proposed to remove complete directories but it seems it is not an option.

> +# The dependency extraction relies on an English version of pacman
> +# We need to configure the locale to match the expectations
> +if 'LANG' in os.environ:
> +    os_lang = os.environ['LANG']
> +    if (len(os_lang) > 2) and (os_lang[0:2] != 'en'):
> +        os.environ['LANG']='en_US'
> I am vaguely curious what it looks like in Spanish. I thought the output
> was fairly mechanistic.

Your filter relies on the English word "depends on"
    ## Extract the "Depends On" line
    depends_on = [x for x in package_info if x.startswith("Depends On")][0]
This is heavily locale-dependent

> - Since we are pulling in compression utilities, we may just as well tell the
>   configuration to compress the *.el files. Windows is the only platform where
>   this does not happen
>
> No, because I generate the no-deps version first, then add the deps. The
> -no-deps version doesn't have the compression utilities. Of course, we
> do not need the *.el files at all.

The no-deps version does not have the compression utilities but it is
not intended to be used by itself, as it depends on all the *.dll Hence,
one may argue that it can be built to support compression.

>   b) I realized that Cairo is pulled in as a dependency, but Emacs is
>   built without support for Cairo. Is this intentional?
>
> No, it will be a transitive dependency of something. pactree will
> reveal!

My simple lines instructing what depends on what showed this: it is
pulled in by rsvg. There were some earlier emails about this.

Cheers,

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Juan José García Ripoll
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