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.