From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Xue Fuqiao Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: build emacs outside of the source directory Date: Fri, 08 Mar 2013 15:36:55 +0800 Organization: The Church of Emacs Message-ID: <51399517.1060809@gmail.com> References: <87li9yizxf.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1362728226 25121 80.91.229.3 (8 Mar 2013 07:37:06 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 8 Mar 2013 07:37:06 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, Darren Hoo To: "Stephen J. Turnbull" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Mar 08 08:37:31 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 1UDrru-0003H2-3j for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 08 Mar 2013 08:37:30 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:43824 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UDrrY-0002q7-5W for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 08 Mar 2013 02:37:08 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:54931) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UDrrT-0002pr-SO for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 08 Mar 2013 02:37:05 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UDrrS-0006l9-5i for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 08 Mar 2013 02:37:03 -0500 Original-Received: from mail-pa0-f47.google.com ([209.85.220.47]:51210) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UDrrR-0006kw-Hj for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 08 Mar 2013 02:37:02 -0500 Original-Received: by mail-pa0-f47.google.com with SMTP id bj3so1113462pad.34 for ; Thu, 07 Mar 2013 23:37:00 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=x-received:message-id:date:from:organization:user-agent :mime-version:to:cc:subject:references:in-reply-to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=lP+lX6TLfEChiE9Y0DYVwV6G8NC/y/5fFIfS5t7dYIA=; b=Bb/3tZitfTGVcBx7Qg2rYQI8mYTth3p8dAFQkAwMIJYnMFd+C4I+ZZRal35PiSIWUK XapipOd2zQS8A3tzYsSPtgqX0QOu7+3n6X6kjzwh/UflkjNxtdZ9WquhDjQ2kgtfCI+l 4OYcp0vWxsFWAk2rw8SlqocUZCqMdUHAuKlZ5qVr87jcH3h+YGDHjLAjCT/GeRmJnkYA M2rkfiNgveEG2RrRncT6OFrHImVlzgQPCoBCxzl3BPF+FqWCFQUf8vRCqbh6QsLu2ytn p1HU+ZjvOtjyndo4IUHA/iyjXmdzHsjEhbKanbZXlHQaz8YoKEUHizKJg10ln7BmI5JI V8CQ== X-Received: by 10.66.176.15 with SMTP id ce15mr2669941pac.79.1362728220776; Thu, 07 Mar 2013 23:37:00 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: from [192.168.1.110] ([123.114.128.170]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id na4sm1001247pbc.8.2013.03.07.23.36.57 (version=TLSv1 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA bits=128/128); Thu, 07 Mar 2013 23:37:00 -0800 (PST) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130221 Thunderbird/17.0.3 In-Reply-To: <87li9yizxf.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 209.85.220.47 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:157576 Archived-At: On 03/08/2013 06:54 AM, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote: > > The built object files for emacs/{src,lib,lib-src} all go to > > build/{src,lib,lib-src}, but the *.elc files are not, they still lie in > > the emacs/lisp diretory. > It's complicated. The theory is that compiled Lisp is universal (can > be run by any instance of Emacs) but that's not 100% true. > (Especially for *XEmacs because Mule is optional -- we just fixed a > related build bug, but that's not a problem here.) To the extent that > the assumption is true, this is a significant build-time-saver. > The easy way to generalize this would be to symlink farm the lisp > directory into blddir instead of linking the directory itself. But > for the reason above, and to some extent Andreas's point about tarball > distribution, it would need to be a configure option. People might > object to that as needless complexity. A configure option looks good to me. -- Best regards, Xue Fuqiao. http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/XueFuqiao