Re: Building Emacs on two different OSes from a shared directory

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2013 08:48:03 +0100
> From: Dani Moncayo <address@hidden>
> 
> I have Ubuntu installed on one machine, and Windows 7 installed on top
> of it as a virtual machine (made with VirtualBox).
> 
> If I have a mirror of Emacs trunk in Ubuntu, and that directory tree
> is also accessible from Windows (it's a shared folder), can I build
> Emacs correctly on both OSes from that same repository, or could there
> be some problem?

You can build in the same tree, if you want: since the Windows build
places the compiled files in subdirectories (src/oo/i386 etc.), and
the Unix build places them in the same directory as sources, there
should be no conflict.

On Unix, you can also build outside of the source tree:

  mkdir /some/where/else
  cd /some/where/else
  /path/to/emacs/tree/configure ...
  make

In the latter case, the source directories will remain clean.