Re: Build failure on M$ (using MSVC): Patch enclosed

[Stefan Monnier]

> The locate-dominating-file restricts me to see in folders that are in
> the hierarchy of my HOME folder only.

No, you can put them anywhere you want.

> at a different mount point and development tree in a different mount
> point. They do not share the same tree apart from the root '/'. If I
> (and other users) need to have default settings for the build tree, I
> would put it in the mount folder of the build tree. With the recent
> changes, it will never see is as the tree does not share my HOME.

Huh, what makes you think so?

> Ex:
> Build dir:
> /mnt/dev/build/users/dhruva/branch/...
> Home:
> /u/users/dhruva

You can plce your .dir-settings.el anywhere along
/mnt/dev/build/users/dhruva/branch/...
It probably will be ignored if it's higher than
/mnt/dev/build/users/dhruva since I guess the owner is different, but
/mnt/dev/build/users/dhruva/.dir-settings.el should work just fine.

> change some values (like CVSROOT for different projects) will have a

[ You normally don't need to set CVSROOT for each project. ]


        Stefan