Re: Expansion of #$ in byte-compiled files

[Ken Brown <kbrown@cornell.edu>]

On 9/3/2015 3:53 PM, Michael Mauger wrote:
> Please correct me if I am not right here, but it appears that in byte-compiled files (don't always?) expand #$ to the current elisp file name.
>
> I wrote a module containing the following code:
>
>    (message "x: %S" #$)
>
> When I load this module using load-file of the .el file adds a line to the *Message* buffer
>
>    Loading /user/michael/x.el (source)...
>
>    x: "/user/michael/x.el"
>    Loading /user/michael/x.el (source)...done
>
>
> I then byte-compile the module, use load-file on the .elc file, and now I get
>
>
>    Loading /user/michael/x.elc...
>    x: nil
>    Loading /user/michael/x.elc...done
>
>
> This causes all loading ELPA/MELPA packages to generate the following error during initialization:
>
>    (wrong-type-argument stringp nil)
>
> because of the following generated line in the package autoloads script:
>
>    (add-to-list 'load-path (or (file-name-directory #$) (car load-path)))
>
> and then the autoloads file gets byte-compile'd when installed.

Why does the autoloads file get byte-compiled?  All the package 
autoloads files on my system have the following in the "Local Variables" 
section:

    ;; no-byte-compile: t

Ken