Re: Compiling Emacs from source for hacking on it

[tomas]

On Tue, May 31, 2022 at 08:45:06PM +0800, Po Lu wrote:
> Akib Azmain Turja <akib@disroot.org> writes:
> 
> > I have recently (shallow) cloned Emacs source code.  I have compiled it
> > by doing the following:
> >
> > $ mkdir build
> > $ cd build
> > $ ../configure --without-x --without-gnutls --without-modules \
> >     --without-sqlite3 --without-pop --without-mailutils --without-sound
> > $ make
> >
> > If I understand correctly, running ./src/emacs should start the newly
> > compiled Emacs.  But it says that with-memoizaton function definition is
> > void, even with an empty init file (actually I commented out the whole
> > file).  ./src/temacs works, but says function-documention is undefined
> > at runtime.
> >
> > Am I doing something wrong?
> 
> I think out of tree builds never really worked in Emacs.

Hm. FWIW I build regularly out-of-tree. I make sure to radically
delete the build dir, and do a "make distclean" (possibly not
needed).

The only issues I had were, from time to time, older .elc files
(thus that "double cleaning" above: that's how voodoo rituals
grow ;-)

Cheers
-- 
t

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