Re: Building Emacs out of source tree?

[Basile Starynkevitch <basile@starynkevitch.net>]

On 3/17/24 15:18, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> If this is on GNU/Linux, then you shouldn't need to have any
> rpl_chmodat anywhere.  I just searched my source/build tree on
> GNU/Linux, and didn't find rpl_chmodat anywhere.  So once again,
> please investigate.
>
> And in any case, this doesn't seem to have anything to do with
> out-of-tree builds, does it?
>
>> Now I'd be willing to gather more details for a bug report if
>> there is an interest in keeping out of source tree compiles
>> viable; for me those aren't that crucial anymore, with the
>> advent of git and of 1TB+ disks.
>>
>> What do you think? Do we still care for out of source builds?
> Of course we do.  They are supported and should continue to be
> supported.


I actually am git pulling and buiding GNU emacs on Linux Debian/x86-64  
(inside its source tree) more than twice a week.

(Why do you want to build it outside of source tree?)

Very often it build and works ok.

> rimski.x86_64 % /usr/local/bin/emacs-30.0.50 --version GNU Emacs 
> 30.0.50 Development version ad3a3ad6e616 on master branch; build date 
> 2024-03-16. Copyright (C) 2024 Free Software Foundation, Inc. GNU 
> Emacs comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY. You may redistribute copies 
> of GNU Emacs under the terms of the GNU General Public License. For 
> more information about these matters, see the file named COPYING. 

Thanks

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