Re: Out of tree builds

[Giorgos Keramidas]

On Tue, 08 Dec 2009 21:44:43 -0500, Stefan Monnier <address@hidden> wrote:
> 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).