Re: Release of CC Mode 5.31

[Stefan Monnier]

>     I thought about some Make magic, like making some of the *.elc files
>     dependent on some other *.elc files which need to be compiled first.
>     (We already have COMPILE_FIRST files that work around similar
>     problems.)  Is there any reason why this wouldn't work?

> It would be possible, but very inconvenient.  And it would not do any good
> for people that do M-x byte-recompile-directory.  The right thing to do
> is figure out what really went wrong here, and then change the files
> to avoid the problem.

I think a good change to avoid (or at least reduce) such problems would be:

When the byte-compiler sees a `require', and the corresponding .elc file is
older than the corresponding .el file, it should load the .el file.


        Stefan