From: Fabrice Popineau <fabrice.popineau@gmail.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: 27956@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#27956: 26.0.50; Setting load-prefer-newer breaks Emacs startup
Date: Sat, 5 Aug 2017 09:46:11 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAFgFV9NkeEpTAH4rDq2zEd=RzbDbzo43ihp2UBQNV2DEnELu=Q@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83h8xmwjyd.fsf@gnu.org>
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2017-08-05 9:30 GMT+02:00 Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>:
> > From: Fabrice Popineau <fabrice.popineau@gmail.com>
> > Date: Sat, 5 Aug 2017 09:14:05 +0200
> > Cc: 27956@debbugs.gnu.org
> >
> > I had to "touch /path/to/emacs/lisp/files/*.elc" after installation to
> fix it.
>
> ??? Do you mean that compressing files with gzip doesn't preserve
> their time stamps? It does here. The gzip manual specifically says:
>
> `gzip' reduces the size of the named files using Lempel-Ziv coding
> (LZ77). Whenever possible, each file is replaced by one with the
> extension `.gz', while keeping the same ownership modes, access and
> modification times.
>
> What version of gzip did you use?
>
Ok, you are right. There is a version 1.6 of gzip.exe distributed with
TeXLive that has interfered here.
It doesn't preserve timestamps when compressing files. This is definitely a
problem, but not in emacs.
The 1.8 gzip.exe from MSYS2 does preserve timestamps.
Sorry for the noise.
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Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-08-04 18:52 bug#27956: 26.0.50; Setting load-prefer-newer breaks Emacs startup Fabrice Popineau
2017-08-05 6:22 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-08-05 7:14 ` Fabrice Popineau
2017-08-05 7:30 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-08-05 7:46 ` Fabrice Popineau [this message]
2017-08-05 7:51 ` Eli Zaretskii
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