Re: Building Emacs out of source tree?

["Andreas Röhler" <andreas.roehler@easy-emacs.de>]

I'm running autogen.sh first, then .configure

Am 17.03.24 um 13:54 schrieb tomas@tuxteam.de:
> Hello, Emacs
>
> after a while, I'm trying again to pick up the custom of
> compiling Emacs.
>
> Usually, I compiled in an empty build directory, invoking
> ../emacs/configure.
>
> This used to work pretty well but doesn't seem to these
> days. I hit two-and-a-half snags:
>
> - one missing chartab.o which happened to lie around
>    in the source dir under src; copying it over to the
>    corresponding spot in the build dir let the build
>    continue
> - one missing symbol rpl_chmodat; this gets defined in
>    some header -- sneaking a strategically placed
>
>      #undef rpl_chmodat
>
>    let the build process continue (and now comes te half
>    snag: pdump dumped core -- that's what you get for
>    messing with things you only half-understand :)
>
> Building in-source Just Works and produces an installable
> Emacs which, prima vista behaves in a civilised manner.
>
> It's a recent git pull, off the "master" branch:
>
>    7a0f4de3c18 (HEAD -> master) Improve C++ standard library detection on Android
>
> 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?
>
> Cheers