From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "stephan.zimmer" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Let compilation start in one directory below current one Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2008 04:51:24 -0700 (PDT) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <8e2e1f23-1bd1-4e4b-b063-4078aa0f079f@v72g2000hsv.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1224679248 30188 80.91.229.12 (22 Oct 2008 12:40:48 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2008 12:40:48 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Oct 22 14:41:49 2008 connect(): Connection refused Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Ksd23-0000zq-1Q for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 22 Oct 2008 14:41:47 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:57629 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Ksd0x-0003dp-9q for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 22 Oct 2008 08:40:39 -0400 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!v72g2000hsv.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 9 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 87.139.15.249 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1224676284 11841 127.0.0.1 (22 Oct 2008 11:51:24 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2008 11:51:24 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: v72g2000hsv.googlegroups.com; posting-host=87.139.15.249; posting-account=KJs5AQoAAADGrOtd_DW54KdKddPM3pQ6 User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.8.1.17) Gecko/20080922 Ubuntu/7.10 (gutsy) Firefox/2.0.0.17, gzip(gfe), gzip(gfe) X-HTTP-Via: 1.1 www-proxy.absint.com:3128 (squid/2.6.STABLE18) Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:163688 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:59028 Archived-At: I would like to start my compilation in one directory deeper than the current. Unfortunately, a local variable specification as % -*- ... compile-directory: (concat default-directory ".."); ... -*- is not working. Does anyone has an idea (except adding "cd.." to the compile command)? Stephan