Re: Out of tree builds

[Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>]

On Wed, 09 Dec 2009 09:25:12 -0500, Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> 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).
>
> 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.

Ah, I see now.  Thanks.

I haven't tried building with $objdir != $srcdir in a long time then.
Reading the rest of the thread I see that you fixed the original problem
you had, so I will try building this way during the next update and see
how things work.