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Re: Out of source compilation


From: VanL
Subject: Re: Out of source compilation
Date: Sun, 01 Sep 2019 22:55:37 +1000
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.3 (darwin)

<tomas@tuxteam.de> writes:

> On Sun, Sep 01, 2019 at 05:57:07AM +0200, Ergus wrote:
>> Hi:
>> 
>> Sorry if this is a too dumb question, but I don't find any related
>> reference.
>> 
>> What's the recommended method to do out of source compilation?
>
> You are talking about compiling Emacs from source?

I was able to build the ordinary Emacs-26.3 source but EmacsMac is stuck.

  xxx% cd emacs-mac
  xxx% . ./autogen.sh 
  Checking whether you have the necessary tools...
  (Read INSTALL.REPO for more details on building Emacs)
  Checking for autoconf (need at least version 2.65) ... ok
  Your system has the required tools.
  Running 'autoreconf -fi -I m4' ...
  autom4te: cannot lock autom4te.cache/requests with mode 2: \
            Operation not supported
  autom4te: cannot lock autom4te.cache/requests with mode 2: \
            Operation not supported
  autom4te: cannot lock autom4te.cache/requests with mode 2: \
            Operation not supported
  Installing git hooks...
  cp: build-aux/git-hooks/ commit-msg pre-commit \
      prepare-commit-msg: No such file or directory
  ./autogen.sh:360: you have running jobs.
  
\help

>> Right now I am doing a cd dir && make. But maybe there is
>> something else, more complete?
>> 
>> Maybe a variable in the locals file?? Or a set command?
>
> If my guess above was right, it's easy (this is true of most well
> managed "modern" Autotools projects):
>
>  - just make yourself a build directory somewhere (in my case
>    it's just a neighbour of the source dir, but that's not
>    necessary)
>
>  - cd to your build directory
>
>  - call configure script from your build directory
>
>  - the build machinery gets deployed in your build directory.
>
>  - do there make && make install as usual.
                  ^
                  +--- Is it possible to set the target install-dir
                       after `make' soas not to confuse existing installs?

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