Re: [PATCH 1/3] emacs: Handle compiled and compressed autoloads.

[Alex Kost]

Ludovic Courtès (2015-12-08 02:00 +0300) wrote:

> Alex Kost <address@hidden> skribis:
>
>> * emacs/guix-emacs.el (guix-emacs-autoloads-regexp): New variable.
>>   (guix-emacs-find-autoloads-in-directory): Return a list of autoloads
>>   without extensions.
>
> LGTM.
>
> However, note that autoloads may only be compressed when we know they do
> not embed store file names (which I think is usually the case.)

Thanks for the info, currently none of the emacs packages provides a
compressed 'autoloads' file.

> Otherwise there’s a risk of fooling the GC, as in
> <http://bugs.gnu.org/20765>.

Hm, OK.  I don't fully understand the issue though.  So *.el files of
'emacs-w3m-1.4.538+0.20141022' will be compressed, and some of these
*.el.gz files contain store file names.  Do these files fool GC?
If so, I think 'emacs-w3m' should be configured with
'--without-compress-install', right?

-- 
Alex