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Re: Broken lisp/Makefile.w32-in


From: Stefan Monnier
Subject: Re: Broken lisp/Makefile.w32-in
Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2002 10:30:16 -0400

> > Check out the end of loaddefs.el.  There's a `no-byte-compile'
> > local variable that you can set in the `local variables' section.
> > It's much better than DONTCOMPILE.
> 
> Yes, I know about no-byte-compile.
> 
> I had (perhaps erroneously) supposed there's a reason why some files are
> excluded from compilation through the makefile and not via a Local
> Variables section (perhaps they're compiled in some phase of the
> bootstrapping, or just in some platforms). Isn't?

Because the `no-byte-compile' variable (which has been in loaddefs.el
for as long as I can remember) has only been obeyed by bytecomp.el recently.

Why did people use DONTCOMPILE instead of fixing bytecomp.el, I do not know.

> Would it be OK to add Local Variables sections to those .el files?

Of course,


        Stefan





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