From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Jan_Dj=E4rv?= Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: More fun with vcswitness Date: Sun, 12 Jan 2014 23:19:42 +0100 Message-ID: References: <20140112200736.C29B33811D4@snark.thyrsus.com> <87zjn1ar8z.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <83k3e47vlq.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 (Mac OS X Mail 7.1 \(1827\)) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1389565206 22222 80.91.229.3 (12 Jan 2014 22:20:06 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 12 Jan 2014 22:20:06 +0000 (UTC) Cc: David Kastrup , emacs-devel To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Jan 12 23:20:13 2014 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 1W2TO8-0003He-BS for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 12 Jan 2014 23:20:12 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:39656 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W2TO7-00040N-RL for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 12 Jan 2014 17:20:11 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:41019) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W2TNz-0003vh-Sp for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 12 Jan 2014 17:20:09 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W2TNt-0000u3-Sh for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 12 Jan 2014 17:20:03 -0500 Original-Received: from mailfe05.swip.net ([212.247.154.129]:37126 helo=swip.net) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W2TNh-0000sI-Cc; Sun, 12 Jan 2014 17:19:45 -0500 X-T2-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.0 required=5.0 Original-Received: from hosdjarv.se (account mj138573@tele2.se [46.59.42.57] verified) by mailfe05.swip.net (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 5.4.4) with ESMTPA id 463650926; Sun, 12 Jan 2014 23:19:43 +0100 In-Reply-To: <83k3e47vlq.fsf@gnu.org> X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1827) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x X-Received-From: 212.247.154.129 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:168253 Archived-At: Hello. 12 jan 2014 kl. 22:12 skrev Eli Zaretskii : > srcdir should always be a relative file name, like ../foo, never > absolute. Is this the srcdir used when compiling in a separate directory? Then there is a problem. See bug 15795 = (http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=3D15795#11) where this was = said: 4 nov 2013 kl. 09:10 skrev Glenn Morris : >=20 > PS try configuring your out-of-tree build using an absolute path to = the > srcdir. So srcdir is recommended to be absolute in this case. Not that I've = seen anywhere stating that separate build directory should use relative = paths. Of course if compile mode was smarter this could go away. Ignore if you are talking about another srcdir. Jan D.