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From: Nick Roberts <nickrob@snap.net.nz>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Different build directory
Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2007 13:42:12 +1200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <17925.54132.84230.394541@kahikatea.snap.net.nz> (raw)


Is it possible to build Emacs in a directory other than the source directory?

If I try the following:

If source is in ~/emacs

cd ~/emacs
make distclean

mkdir ~/emacs-build
cd ~/emacs-build
~/emacs/configure
make bootstrap

I get:

Generating autoloads for progmodes/idlw-shell.el...done
IO error reading /home/nickrob/emacs1/lisp/progmodes/idlwave.el: Input/output error

If I have an emacs executable in emacs/src, I can do

cd ~/emacs-build
~/emacs/configure
make

but the info files are made in the source directory structure, and the
compiled lisp files are there too.

I'm thinking that being able to separate source and generated files will make
things like backing up easier.


-- 
Nick                                           http://www.inet.net.nz/~nickrob

             reply	other threads:[~2007-03-25  1:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-03-25  1:42 Nick Roberts [this message]
2007-03-25  9:38 ` Different build directory Andreas Schwab

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