From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Giorgos Keramidas Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Out of tree builds Date: Wed, 09 Dec 2009 08:05:15 +0200 Message-ID: <87bpi81y3o.fsf@kobe.laptop> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1260338746 22333 80.91.229.12 (9 Dec 2009 06:05:46 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 9 Dec 2009 06:05:46 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Dec 09 07:05:39 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 1NIFg9-0004PK-Nt for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 09 Dec 2009 07:05:38 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:52519 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NIFg9-0004AA-MW for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 09 Dec 2009 01:05:37 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NIFg0-00049U-Mq for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 09 Dec 2009 01:05:28 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NIFfv-00048M-2P for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 09 Dec 2009 01:05:27 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=56730 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NIFfu-00048J-T4 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 09 Dec 2009 01:05:22 -0500 Original-Received: from poseidon.ceid.upatras.gr ([150.140.141.169]:38927) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NIFfu-0006sj-Tv for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 09 Dec 2009 01:05:23 -0500 Original-Received: from mail.ceid.upatras.gr (unknown [10.1.0.143]) by poseidon.ceid.upatras.gr (Postfix) with ESMTP id A98E4EB47F4; Wed, 9 Dec 2009 08:05:19 +0200 (EET) Original-Received: from localhost (europa.ceid.upatras.gr [127.0.0.1]) by mail.ceid.upatras.gr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9750D45326; Wed, 9 Dec 2009 08:05:19 +0200 (EET) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ceid.upatras.gr Original-Received: from mail.ceid.upatras.gr ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (europa.ceid.upatras.gr [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id eBTn2X-Zk966; Wed, 9 Dec 2009 08:05:19 +0200 (EET) Original-Received: from kobe.laptop (ppp-94-64-224-63.home.otenet.gr [94.64.224.63]) by mail.ceid.upatras.gr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5A94345323; Wed, 9 Dec 2009 08:05:19 +0200 (EET) Original-Received: from kobe.laptop (kobe.laptop [127.0.0.1]) by kobe.laptop (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id nB965IZ4059560 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Wed, 9 Dec 2009 08:05:18 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Original-Received: (from keramida@localhost) by kobe.laptop (8.14.3/8.14.3/Submit) id nB965G5k059557; Wed, 9 Dec 2009 08:05:16 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) In-Reply-To: (Stefan Monnier's message of "Tue, 08 Dec 2009 21:44:43 -0500") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1.50 (berkeley-unix) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) 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:118435 Archived-At: On Tue, 08 Dec 2009 21:44:43 -0500, Stefan Monnier wrote: > 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).