bug#28345: 25.2.1: package-install-file and dynamic modules

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Peking Duck <pekingducklabs@gmail.com> writes:

> I wrote a dynamic module and am trying to use package.el to install it. I 
> followed
> the instructions in the Emacs Lisp Manual and created a tar archive. This tar
> archive contains:
>
> sqlite3-api-0.1/
> sqlite3-api-0.1/sqlite3-api-pkg.el
> sqlite3-api-0.1/sqlite3-api.so
>
> I then evaluated
>
> (package-install-file "~/src/emacs-sqlite3-api/sqlite3-api-0.1.tar")
>
> and it gave me an error:
>
> (error "sqlite3-api.so:0:0: error: scan-error: (Containing expression ends
> prematurely 47501 47502)\
> ")
>
> From the backtrace, it's  autoload-generate-file-autoloads in autoload.el that
> caused it. Seems to me Emacs was trying to parse the .so looking for 
> autoloads? 

(I'm going through old bug reports that unfortunately got no response at
the time.)

I'm not quite sure what the status of including .so files in Emacs
packages is now -- anybody know?  (.so files are architecture specific,
so I guess it's not something we do generally, but I guess people would
want to do it, anyway...) 

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