From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Out of tree builds Date: Wed, 09 Dec 2009 09:25:12 -0500 Message-ID: References: <87bpi81y3o.fsf@kobe.laptop> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1260368747 18458 80.91.229.12 (9 Dec 2009 14:25:47 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 9 Dec 2009 14:25:47 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Giorgos Keramidas Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Dec 09 15:25:40 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 1NINU2-00072d-Bd for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 09 Dec 2009 15:25:38 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:33535 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NINU2-0003Fk-6k for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 09 Dec 2009 09:25:38 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NINTk-00035f-1D for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 09 Dec 2009 09:25:20 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NINTe-000342-O6 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 09 Dec 2009 09:25:18 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=34735 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NINTe-00033z-LY for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 09 Dec 2009 09:25:14 -0500 Original-Received: from ironport2-out.teksavvy.com ([206.248.154.183]:43737 helo=ironport2-out.pppoe.ca) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NINTe-0007DF-8S for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 09 Dec 2009 09:25:14 -0500 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AtkEAApCH0vO+INN/2dsb2JhbACBTNV9hCwEihs X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.47,368,1257138000"; d="scan'208";a="51095211" Original-Received: from 206-248-131-77.dsl.teksavvy.com (HELO pastel.home) ([206.248.131.77]) by ironport2-out.pppoe.ca with ESMTP; 09 Dec 2009 09:25:12 -0500 Original-Received: by pastel.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 924768065; Wed, 9 Dec 2009 09:25:12 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: <87bpi81y3o.fsf@kobe.laptop> (Giorgos Keramidas's message of "Wed, 09 Dec 2009 08:05:15 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. 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:118451 Archived-At: >> 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'm often building Emacs outside of a CVS checkout, if that is what you > are asking. There was a recent bootstrap failure, but other than this I > have been building Emacs in ~/tmp/emacs-src by copying everything *but* > the CVS/ directories for a long time (at least a couple of years). Oh, bu out-of-tree builds I was talking about the following kind of thing: mkdir build cd build /path/to/emacs/sources/configure make this is supposed to work. And you might like to use it to avoid copying everything. Stefan