Re: bad change to tooltip.el

[Dave Love]

Nick Roberts <address@hidden> writes:

>  > If you mean you're compiling multiple files in one Emacs session and
>  > especially looking at compiler messages, then don't do that.  It's
>  > important to compile things separately, as the makefile targets do.
>
> How do you mean?
>
> Even with batch (as in the makefiles?),

Yes.  You need to do that.

> if I have a directory:
>
> ls -l ~/test
> total 72
> -rw-r--r--    1 nickrob  nick        17555 Nov 17 13:42 file1.el
> -rw-r--r--    1 nickrob  nick        15820 Nov 17 13:48 file2.el
>
> Then:
>
> ~/emacs/src/emacs -batch --no-site-file --multibyte --eval 
> "(batch-byte-recompile-directory 0)" ~/test
>
> Checking /home/nick/test...
> Compiling /home/nick/test/file.el...
> ...
>
> A file loaded for the compilation of file1.el, still appears to be loaded for
> the compilation of file2.el.

That's why `make compile' doesn't do that and compiles .els
separately.  (I have a more efficient version that doesn't always run
emacs on most of the Lisp files and is rather more usable on an old
box.)