Re: automake's .el support vs. recent loss of byte-compile-dest-file

[Jim Meyering]

On Wed, Nov 22, 2017 at 10:34 PM, Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> wrote:
> On November 23, 2017 7:02:07 AM GMT+02:00, Jim Meyering <address@hidden> 
> wrote:
...
>> However, bear in mind that once that May change makes it into an emacs
>> release, automake-generated Makefile.in files will be broken in that
>> respect.
>
> This incompatible change is not in NEWS.  We announced the function
> as obsolete in Emacs 23.2, but evidently Automake didn't take notice.
> So I'd rather we restored that functionality, perhaps with some
> annoying warning to encourage Automake to get their act together
> sooner rather than later.  Breaking all the Makefile.in files out there
> doesn't sound TRT to me.

I've just posted an automake fix:
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/automake/2017-11/msg00038.html