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From: steve@CFHT.CFHT.HAWAII.EDU (Steven Smith)
Newsgroups: gnu.emacs
Subject: shared source question
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Date: 11 May 89 23:44:53 GMT
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I have been supporting GNU emacs at my site for about nine months.
Currently I need to have emacs on HP9000/3xx, HP9000/8xx, Sun3/xxx,
Sun4/xxx networked together(NFS).  Support for the various flavors of X10, 
X11, Sunview and (soon I hope) NEWS/X11 are usefull.  Also various OS releases
are coming in all the time.

My question is this, is it possible (or even a good thing?) to use *one* 
NFS mountable copy of the source tree (for any given version of emacs) 
and a master Makefile to generate all the needed executables, thereby
saving 40+ meg of disc for each combination?

If anyone has any experience, good or bad, with such a beast please 
reply be email (to: steve@cfht.hawaii.edu).  I'll summarize if needed.

mahalo,

steve