From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Miles Bader Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Out of tree builds Date: Wed, 09 Dec 2009 12:05:20 +0900 Message-ID: References: Reply-To: Miles Bader NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1260329462 2484 80.91.229.12 (9 Dec 2009 03:31:02 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 9 Dec 2009 03:31:02 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Dec 09 04:30:54 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 1NIDGQ-0007OW-E5 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 09 Dec 2009 04:30:54 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:46819 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NIDGQ-0005yT-9v for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 08 Dec 2009 22:30:54 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NIDFi-0005K0-K0 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 08 Dec 2009 22:30:10 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NIDFe-0005HI-Qz for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 08 Dec 2009 22:30:10 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=52531 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NIDFe-0005H4-HG for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 08 Dec 2009 22:30:06 -0500 Original-Received: from tyo201.gate.nec.co.jp ([202.32.8.193]:46739) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NIDFb-0001YD-JZ; Tue, 08 Dec 2009 22:30:04 -0500 Original-Received: from relay11.aps.necel.com ([10.29.19.46]) by tyo201.gate.nec.co.jp (8.13.8/8.13.4) with ESMTP id nB93TvwX008055; Wed, 9 Dec 2009 12:29:57 +0900 (JST) Original-Received: from relay21.aps.necel.com ([10.29.19.20] [10.29.19.20]) by relay11.aps.necel.com with ESMTP; Wed, 9 Dec 2009 12:29:57 +0900 Original-Received: from dhlpc061 ([10.114.114.39] [10.114.114.39]) by relay21.aps.necel.com with ESMTP; Wed, 9 Dec 2009 12:29:57 +0900 Original-Received: by dhlpc061 (Postfix, from userid 31295) id F13B452E1FC; Wed, 9 Dec 2009 12:29:56 +0900 (JST) System-Type: x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu Blat: Foop Original-Lines: 15 X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: Solaris 8 (1) 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:118422 Archived-At: Stefan Monnier writes: > 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.] -Miles -- .Numeric stability is probably not all that important when you're guessing.