From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Out of tree builds Date: Tue, 08 Dec 2009 22:53:08 -0500 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1260330809 5274 80.91.229.12 (9 Dec 2009 03:53:29 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 9 Dec 2009 03:53:29 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Miles Bader Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Dec 09 04:53:22 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 1NIDc9-0005DX-4I for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 09 Dec 2009 04:53:22 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:52067 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NIDc8-0007Ve-SF for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 08 Dec 2009 22:53:20 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NIDc3-0007VH-Rx for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 08 Dec 2009 22:53:15 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NIDbz-0007Up-BU for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 08 Dec 2009 22:53:15 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=45210 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NIDbz-0007Um-84 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 08 Dec 2009 22:53:11 -0500 Original-Received: from ironport2-out.teksavvy.com ([206.248.154.181]:36529 helo=ironport2-out.pppoe.ca) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NIDby-00037P-28; Tue, 08 Dec 2009 22:53:10 -0500 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AvAEADauHkvO+INN/2dsb2JhbACBTNYphDIEih8 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.47,365,1257138000"; d="scan'208";a="51076460" Original-Received: from 206-248-131-77.dsl.teksavvy.com (HELO ceviche.home) ([206.248.131.77]) by ironport2-out.pppoe.ca with ESMTP; 08 Dec 2009 22:53:08 -0500 Original-Received: by ceviche.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 69B1DB4214; Tue, 8 Dec 2009 22:53:08 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: (Miles Bader's message of "Wed, 09 Dec 2009 12:05:20 +0900") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1.50 (gnu/linux) 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:118424 Archived-At: >> 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 always build with a separate object directory (usually daily), and > haven't had any obvious problems. [I usually build incrementally, but > make bootstrap also seems to work whenever I need to do it for some > reason.] Hmm... then how does the byte-compilation work? When I try it, it goes from the build/src to src/lisp (rather than build/lisp) and then is asked to byte-compile with ../src/bootstrap-emacs which is absent. Stefan