Re: Compiling Emacs from source for hacking on it

[Ken Brown]

On 5/31/2022 9:35 AM, tomas@tuxteam.de wrote:
> > 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

I also build out-of-tree and have done so for years.  I don't do any special 
cleaning between builds, and it works fine.

Ken