Re: Out of source compilation

[Ergus <spacibba@aol.com>]

No, sorry I explained wrong myself ;)

I was asking about using the M-x compile command in general. So use
compilation buffers, recompile, goto-next-error and so on.

When compiling in source it is almost trivial, but when the building
directory is out of sources (like cmake does by default) I don't know if
there is a way to tell to emacs that the compilation directory is
somewhere else. 

On Sun, Sep 01, 2019 at 10:24:30AM +0200, tomas@tuxteam.de wrote:
>On Sun, Sep 01, 2019 at 05:57:07AM +0200, Ergus wrote:
>> Hi:
>>
>> Sorry if this is a too dumb question, but I don't find any related
>> reference.
>>
>> What's the recommended method to do out of source compilation?
>
>You are talking about compiling Emacs from source?
>
>> Right now I am doing a cd dir && make. But maybe there is
>> something else, more complete?
>>
>> Maybe a variable in the locals file?? Or a set command?
>
>If my guess above was right, it's easy (this is true of most well
>managed "modern" Autotools projects):
>
> - just make yourself a build directory somewhere (in my case
>   it's just a neighbour of the source dir, but that's not
>   necessary)
>
> - cd to your build directory
>
> - call configure script from your build directory
>
> - the build machinery gets deployed in your build directory.
>
> - do there make && make install as usual.
>
>Cheers
>-- t