Re: Process to build standalone Emacs + deps in Windows

[Phillip Lord]

Stefan Monnier <address@hidden> writes:

>> +    excludes=['lib/*.a', # No files to link against
> [...]
>> 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
>
> I had a clean and simple solution, but I wrote it in a small margin
> and now I can't read it any more, sorry.

Move to vim perhaps?


>> +# 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 think the `C` locale is the obvious choice for these kinds of situations.
>
>> Of course, we do not need the *.el files at all.
>
> I really hope we keep them there.  Even if many users won't look at
> them, the fact that they're so easy to get to is almost a defining
> feature of Emacs.

Yeah. I had a vague memory that the default out-of-source build didn't
put the .el files there, and that I'd done that deliberately for the
windows build. But there's nothing in build-zips.sh to suggest that this
is true, so I guess my memory is wrong.

Phil