Re: Compiling Emacs from source for hacking on it

[Akib Azmain Turja]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> From: Akib Azmain Turja <akib@disroot.org>
>> Date: Tue, 31 May 2022 18:07:38 +0600
>> 
>> I have recently (shallow) cloned Emacs source code.  I have compiled it
>> by doing the following:
>> 
>> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
>> $ mkdir build
>> $ cd build
>> $ ../configure --without-x --without-gnutls --without-modules \
>>     --without-sqlite3 --without-pop --without-mailutils --without-sound
>> $ make
>> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
>> 
>> 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.
>
> With the current master branch, I cannot reproduce this.  But:
>
>   . I cloned the repository normally (i.e. not a "shallow" clone)
>   . I built Emacs in the source tree, not in a separate build/
>     sub-directory;
>   . I invoked Emacs as ./src/emacs -Q
>
> If using "-Q" doesn't help, perhaps this is some problem with building
> in a separate directory, in which case you could rebuild in-place and
> try again.

Yes, adding -Q works.  But why it can't read my init file even when the
whole file is commented?  Or is it expected?

And I don't think a shallow clone is causing any problem, as the files
should be identical.

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Akib Azmain Turja

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