Re: lisp/gnus/.dir-locals.el

[Glenn Morris]

>> it does not work, at least on Windows. Bootstrapping still generates
>> lisp/gnus/.dir-locals.elc.

It was only supposed to fix the Unix `make recompile'. There is no
bootstrap issue on Unix builds.

> How about filing a bug report, then?

If Emacs is explicitly passed a file name via batch-byte-compile, IMO
it ought to try and compile that file regardless of its name. So
either change the Windows build to exclude dotfiles, or simply add a
no-byte-compile cookie to any .dir-locals.el that might be added below
lisp/.