From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Jan_Dj=E4rv?= Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Out of tree builds Date: Wed, 09 Dec 2009 19:25:24 +0100 Message-ID: <4B1FEB94.1000905@swipnet.se> References: <87bpi81y3o.fsf@kobe.laptop> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1260383147 9290 80.91.229.12 (9 Dec 2009 18:25:47 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 9 Dec 2009 18:25:47 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Giorgos Keramidas , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Dec 09 19:25:39 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1NIREI-0003RI-3p for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 09 Dec 2009 19:25:38 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:59528 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NIREH-0002RX-Ip for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 09 Dec 2009 13:25:37 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NIREB-0002Pb-RB for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 09 Dec 2009 13:25:31 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NIRE6-0002MD-QZ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 09 Dec 2009 13:25:30 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=44494 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NIRE6-0002MA-Jp for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 09 Dec 2009 13:25:26 -0500 Original-Received: from proxy2.bredband.net ([195.54.101.72]:50380) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NIRE6-0002tq-9c for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 09 Dec 2009 13:25:26 -0500 Original-Received: from ipb2.telenor.se (195.54.127.165) by proxy2.bredband.net (7.3.140.3) id 4AD3E1BC01982BB8 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 9 Dec 2009 19:25:25 +0100 X-SMTPAUTH-B2: X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AgxTAEt6H0tV4S1uPGdsb2JhbACBTJc3glMBAQEBN7tRhCwE X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.47,369,1257116400"; d="scan'208";a="13448694" Original-Received: from c-6e2de155.25-1-64736c10.cust.bredbandsbolaget.se (HELO coolsville.localdomain) ([85.225.45.110]) by ipb2.telenor.se with ESMTP; 09 Dec 2009 19:25:24 +0100 Original-Received: from [172.20.199.2] (gaffa [172.20.199.2]) by coolsville.localdomain (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3ACCE7FA07B; Wed, 9 Dec 2009 19:25:24 +0100 (CET) User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.23 (X11/20090817) In-Reply-To: X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:118465 Archived-At: 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.