From: "Jan Djärv" <jan.h.d@swipnet.se>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Out of tree builds
Date: Wed, 09 Dec 2009 19:25:24 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4B1FEB94.1000905@swipnet.se> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwvy6lcdy4h.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org>
Stefan Monnier skrev:
>>> Are some people doing out-of-tree builds here?
>>>
>>> I just tried one and encountered some problems, but they seem to have
>>> been around for a long time (e.g. the use of ../src/bootstrap-emacs), so
>>> I wonder: have people used it successfully in the (recent) past?
>
>> I'm often building Emacs outside of a CVS checkout, if that is what you
>> are asking. There was a recent bootstrap failure, but other than this I
>> have been building Emacs in ~/tmp/emacs-src by copying everything *but*
>> the CVS/ directories for a long time (at least a couple of years).
>
> Oh, bu out-of-tree builds I was talking about the following kind of
> thing:
>
> mkdir build
> cd build
> /path/to/emacs/sources/configure
> make
>
> this is supposed to work. And you might like to use it to avoid
> copying everything.
>
I do that. I don't have any problem with bootstrap. What problems are you
seeing?
Jan D.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-12-09 18:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-12-09 2:44 Out of tree builds Stefan Monnier
2009-12-09 2:59 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2009-12-09 3:05 ` Miles Bader
2009-12-09 3:53 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-12-09 3:59 ` Miles Bader
2009-12-09 4:03 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2009-12-09 4:18 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-12-09 6:05 ` Giorgos Keramidas
2009-12-09 14:25 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-12-09 17:59 ` Giorgos Keramidas
2009-12-09 18:25 ` Jan Djärv [this message]
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