Re: Compiling Emacs from source for hacking on it

[Akib Azmain Turja <akib@disroot.org>]

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Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> From: Akib Azmain Turja <akib@disroot.org>
>> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
>> Date: Tue, 31 May 2022 22:22:31 +0600
>> 
>> > If using "-Q" doesn't help, perhaps this is some problem with building
>> > in a separate directory, in which case you could rebuild in-place and
>> > try again.
>> 
>> Yes, adding -Q works.  But why it can't read my init file even when the
>> whole file is commented?  Or is it expected?
>
> If using -Q solves the problem, look for the reason in your init files
> or site-init files.  Also, maybe you have some installed packages that
> get activated at startup?

Ahh, I didn't thought about that.  Guix and package is loading autoloads
which might cause it.  But interestingly, the "with-memoization is
undefined" problem doesn't occur when I call temacs.

>
> However, if all you need is to make changes in Emacs, maybe you can
> always invoke this version-for-hacking with -Q?

Yeah, I would probably do so, but I was just testing if everything was
working correctly.

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