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

[Xue Fuqiao]

On Mon, 28 Jan 2013 10:38:55 +0100
Dani Moncayo <address@hidden> wrote:

> Of course, if I make a separate branch for each OS, there should not
> be any problem, but the question is whether I could compile Emacs on
> both OSes using the same directory tree.

The GNU Build System distinguishes two trees: the source tree, and the build 
tree.  So I think you can do it.

> AFAIK, the build on MS-Windows is done entirely under the "nt/"
> subdirectory which is specific to that platform.  If that is true,
> there should be no problem is sharing the same directory tree for both
> OSes.

I have never built Emacs on w32, so I have no idea.

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