Re: FreeBSD package build failure with Emacs 26.1

[Roland Winkler]

On Wed Nov 14 2018 Greg Troxel wrote:
> Joseph Mingrone <address@hidden> writes:
> > 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.

The Makefile you talk about is not the one generated via automake
from the BBDB tar ball, correct?  This default file does not work
with FreeBSD?