From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: trunk r115472: Make 'configure' work out-of-the-box on Solaris. Date: Sat, 14 Dec 2013 16:02:27 +0200 Message-ID: <83haabfs3w.fsf@gnu.org> References: <52A941D3.4020607@cs.ucla.edu> <52A98D60.9080709@gmx.at> <83d2l26npp.fsf@gnu.org> <52A9FC38.9010603@gmx.at> <87bo0l1p2y.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <52AADDE2.7080509@gmx.at> <83k3f958b7.fsf@gnu.org> <877gb829m9.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <52AC3FA0.6090109@gmx.at> <55DE0149-4A09-424D-88D3-35486D15615C@swipnet.se> <52AC60F3.9050104@gmx.at> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1387029754 19825 80.91.229.3 (14 Dec 2013 14:02:34 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 14 Dec 2013 14:02:34 +0000 (UTC) Cc: stephen@xemacs.org, jan.h.d@swipnet.se, emacs-devel@gnu.org, eggert@cs.ucla.edu To: martin rudalics Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Dec 14 15:02:39 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Vrpni-00068U-8y for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 14 Dec 2013 15:02:38 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:47414 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Vrpnh-00067X-TQ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 14 Dec 2013 09:02:37 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:47439) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Vrpnb-00067J-V6 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 14 Dec 2013 09:02:36 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VrpnW-0006Ix-3I for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 14 Dec 2013 09:02:31 -0500 Original-Received: from mtaout22.012.net.il ([80.179.55.172]:55647) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VrpnV-0006Ir-Rg for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 14 Dec 2013 09:02:26 -0500 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout22.012.net.il by a-mtaout22.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0MXS00100UXBCH00@a-mtaout22.012.net.il> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 14 Dec 2013 16:02:24 +0200 (IST) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by a-mtaout22.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0MXS001BGUZZ4W50@a-mtaout22.012.net.il>; Sat, 14 Dec 2013 16:02:24 +0200 (IST) In-reply-to: <52AC60F3.9050104@gmx.at> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 X-Received-From: 80.179.55.172 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:166386 Archived-At: > Date: Sat, 14 Dec 2013 14:45:23 +0100 > From: martin rudalics > Cc: "Stephen J. Turnbull" , > Paul Eggert , Eli Zaretskii , > emacs-devel > > > I have not read the whole thread, but isn't this what separate build directories are for? Use them all the time. > > I understand that meanwhile. But what do I have to do to use them? Nothing. Juts create a directory, chdir there, and invoke the configure script from the source directory, as in "/d/foo/bar/configure" or "../../foo/bar/configure". The script will do the rest.