Re: trunk r115472: Make 'configure' work out-of-the-box on Solaris.

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2013 11:13:54 +0100
> From: martin rudalics <address@hidden>
> CC: Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden>, address@hidden, 
>  address@hidden
> 
>  > Aside from multiple branches, which are a PITA if conceptually they're
>  > supposed to be identical source IMO, surely Emacs uses the wonderful
>  > support Make has for VPATH aka configure --srcdir builds?  Have a GTK
>  > blddir, a Lucid blddir, etc for any that you regularly build.  After
>  > doing that once, just "make" should win (or perhaps an occasional
>  > "make bootstrap").
> 
> Sounds intriguing.  Does anyone do that here?

I do, sometimes.

But I disagree with Stephen about the PITA part: normally, when I make
a different build, I do that because I need to debug it or test some
changes specific to that build.  Having a separate branch for that
from the get-go makes it very easy to make changes without thinking
twice, and also to merge those changes later onto the trunk.