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

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2013 15:29:35 +0100
> From: Dani Moncayo <address@hidden>
> Cc: address@hidden, address@hidden
> 
> >> AFAIK, the build on MS-Windows is done entirely under the "nt/"
> >> subdirectory which is specific to that platform.
> >
> > The Windows build is _started_ in the nt/ directory.  But then the
> > Makefiles recurse into the other directories: src, lib, lib-src, etc.,
> > and build files there as well.
> >
> > It is however, true that compiled files are placed in subdirectories,
> > like nt/oo/i386, src/oo/i386, etc. -- different set of directories for
> > each architecture and optimization level.  So compiling on Unix will
> > not overwrite Windows object files and executables.
> 
> Understood, thanks.  I presume this is true also for "make install".

Yes, see install-other-dirs-gmake.