Re: FreeBSD package build failure with Emacs 26.1

[Greg Troxel]

Joseph Mingrone <address@hidden> writes:

> The problem is isolated to our package building tool, poudriere.  To get
> (more) reproducible builds, it uses things like nullfs mounts and clean
> jails.

pkgsrc has similar mechanisms/goals.  It makes sense that they expose
issues others don't see.

> In any case, I have patched the Makefile to remove the
>
> --eval '(setq byte-compile-dest-file-function (lambda (_) "bbdb.elc"))' \
>
> and the package is building again.  Unless anyone has a less ad-hoc
> solution, I will commit this change to get the packages out again.

I find the presence of that setq odd; I don't understand why it is
needed as I woudl think compiled foo.el would write to foo.elc normally.