On Fri, Aug 20, 2021 at 09:51:42PM +0200, Arthur Miller wrote:
> tomas@tuxteam.de writes:
> 
> > On Fri, Aug 20, 2021 at 02:06:39PM +0200, Arthur Miller wrote:
> >> tomas@tuxteam.de writes:

[...]

> >> I actually run emacs from source dir. I compile it every few days, so it
> >> does not really make sense to me to run make-install and copy over
> >> everything to some other directory every now and then.
> >
> > Hm. I do, too, but I always do "make install".
> 
> I don't understand, why make install if you run from the source dir?
> What is the benefit? 

Ouch, no. My message got corrupted on its way to the keyboard.
I wanted to say that I self-compile too, but then do "make install".

Sorry for that sloppiness.

Cheers
 - t