Re: Out of tree builds

[Stefan Monnier]

>> 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