> Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2012 12:11:17 -0600
> From: Christoph Scholtes <cschol2112@goog...>
> CC: emacs-devel@gnu....
>
> On 6/10/2012 10:03 AM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>
> > Sorry, I don't follow: aren't you invoking "make install"?  If not,
> > what Make command are you using that doesn't work?
>
> No. When creating the binary distribution, I do not want to install the
> shortcuts in my start menu. That was the main reason for creating the
> install-bin target to allow to create an in-place installation from
> which a distribution can be created without creating the shortcuts. make
> install will run make install-bin and then install-shortcuts, so we get
> the normal, expected behavior including shortcuts.

So what are the commands you invoke when you prepare a binary
distribution?  Armed with that knowledge, I can find a way to keep
both "make install" and your procedure happy.

> > In general, addpm.exe is not needed, unless one wants to create or
> > update the shortcuts, which is why I didn't hesitate to move that
> > command (in its previous place, it interfered with parallel execution
> > of "make install", which was the motivation for the change).
>
> We should include it in the binary distribution, right?

Yes, definitely.