Re: [PATCH] Project out of sources compilation

[Konstantin Kharlamov]

On Tue, 2024-04-02 at 17:39 -0400, Richard Stallman wrote:
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> What does "Project out of sources compilation" mean?
> I am not sure how to parse that, let alone determine what it
> signfies.

In Emacs terms, if you enter Emacs repo and execute

        mkdir build && cd build && ../configure && make

it will be an "out of sources compilation", because all artifacts¹ will
be inside this `build` dir rather than being scattered all over the
repo.

1: Emacs does not fully support it though, because while object files
and configs do end up inside `build`, however `*.elc` files are still
scattered all over the repo. But I hope you get the idea.