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bug#50285: 28.0.50; Mew dosen't work correctly if .el files of Mew are n
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Stefan Monnier |
Subject: |
bug#50285: 28.0.50; Mew dosen't work correctly if .el files of Mew are native compiled |
Date: |
Tue, 31 Aug 2021 15:01:44 -0400 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
Eli Zaretskii [2021-08-31 15:05:14] wrote:
>> Cc: 50285@debbugs.gnu.org
>> Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2021 17:02:08 -0400
>> From: Stefan Monnier via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs,
>> the Swiss army knife of text editors" <bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
>>
>> So we really have 3 problems here:
>>
>> 1- The code in Mew should not rely on the makefile rule for
>> correct compilation.
>> Fixing this would also make it easier to distribute Mew via ELPA
>> (where a similar problem shows up since package.el will compile the
>> .el files in an unspecified order which could thus result in the
>> same kind of miscompilation).
>>
>> 2- The generation of the `.eln` file should start from the `.elc` file
>> rather than from the `.el` file because we sometimes lack the
>> information needed to correctly re-generate the `.elc` file from the
>> `.el` file.
>
> And 3?...
The third problem is the well-known off-by-one,
Stefan