Re: [PATCH] port elisp-compilation support to emacs-23.1 and newer

[Jim Meyering]

On Mon, Nov 27, 2017 at 10:27 AM, Glenn Morris <address@hidden> wrote:
> Jim Meyering wrote:
>
>> In May of 2017, support for using the long-deprecated
>> byte-compile-dest-file function was removed, and that removal broke
>> automake's elisp-compiling rule for any .el file not in the current
>> directory.
>
> In general, Emacs expects .el and .elc to be found in the same
> directory. Not adhering to this convention will likely break various
> Emacs features. Is this really something automake needs to enable at all?

An alternative would be to copy-or-link the .el file into the
destination directory. Indeed. That would work without breaking pre-23
emacs, so I will adjust my automake patch before pushing it to master.

Thanks.

However, please do consider undoing that breaking change before the
next emacs release, so we have a chance to release a fixed version of
automake before you remove the functionality being used in all
existing Makefile.in files.