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?