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Re: Out of tree builds
From: |
Giorgos Keramidas |
Subject: |
Re: Out of tree builds |
Date: |
Wed, 09 Dec 2009 19:59:41 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1.90 (berkeley-unix) |
On Wed, 09 Dec 2009 09:25:12 -0500, Stefan Monnier <address@hidden> wrote:
>>> 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.
Ah, I see now. Thanks.
I haven't tried building with $objdir != $srcdir in a long time then.
Reading the rest of the thread I see that you fixed the original problem
you had, so I will try building this way during the next update and see
how things work.