Re: Compiling Emacs from source for hacking on it

[tomas]

On Tue, May 31, 2022 at 04:02:16PM +0200, Óscar Fuentes wrote:
> Ken Brown <kbrown@cornell.edu> writes:
> 
> > 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.
> 
> +1
> 
> > I don't do any special cleaning between builds, and it works fine.
> 
> Apart from the occassional `make bootstrap' or `git clean -fdx'.

Oh, so part of the crude rituals isn't completely crazy?

Cheers
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t

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