On Tue, Nov 28, 2017 at 2:23 PM, Glenn Morris <r...@gnu.org> wrote: > Jim Meyering wrote: > >> Remember: this arises only in a non-srcdir build. That means build >> artifacts end up being written into the mostly-empty current directory >> hierarchy, which does not have copies of the sources. Installation >> processes will continue to copy both .el and .elc files into place. > > Oh, so you only split .el and .elc up while building, but they get > installed into the same place? That's not so bad, though it is, eg, not > something that Emacs supports in its own build process (in non-srcdir > builds, .elc still get written into srcdir). > > BTW: > > ELCFLAGS=-lbytecomp > > is presumably another way to solve your issue, for any version of Emacs > and automake (once bytecomp is loaded you can redefine functions as you wish).
Thanks for the suggestion, Glenn. However, I've hit a new snag: subdirs. I posted details and a smaller stand-alone demonstrator on the emacs-devel thread: TL;DR this automake test fails regardless: make check TESTS='t/lisp-subdir.sh'
