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* Why does Emacs's source tar archive contain *.elc files?
@ 2024-07-17 12:45 Maksim Kislyakov
  2024-07-17 13:16 ` Eli Zaretskii
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread
From: Maksim Kislyakov @ 2024-07-17 12:45 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: emacs-devel

Good day,

  I was playing around compiling Emacs from sources. At some point, I 
have found out that '*.tar' files with Emacs sources contain '*.elc' files.

As far as I understand, 'elc' is byte-compiled version of 'el' file.

- Why does the tar archive contain compiled sources? That seems strange. 
Source code archive (which you use to compile program) contains compiled 
code.

- Also, what will happen if I apply some patch before compiling Emacs? 
'el' file's modification time will be newer that corresponding 'elc' 
file's modification time.




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