Subject: bug#20968: 25.0.50; Be able to specify the output directory for `byte-compile-file'

From: Glenn Morris <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 02 Jul 2015 18:12:03 -0400

> Enhancement request.
>
> 1. Be able to specify the output directory for *.elc files to
> `byte-compile-file'.  See this emacs.SE question:
> http://emacs.stackexchange.com/q/13596/105.

This request doesn't make a lot of sense to me (I feel like saying this
for many of these "here's a forward of a thing I read on Stack-foo"),
because Emacs expects .el and .elc to live in the same place.