From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Kastrup Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Last steps for pretesting Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2006 23:46:27 +0200 Message-ID: <854q0nex8s.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> References: <854q0pdzi5.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <87odywqhav.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> <858xq0dj3n.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <87zmiforfc.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1145569628 13253 80.91.229.2 (20 Apr 2006 21:47:08 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2006 21:47:08 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Alan Mackenzie , Richard Stallman , emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Apr 20 23:47:03 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FWgzK-0008SA-G5 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 20 Apr 2006 23:46:58 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FWgzK-0004W3-2O for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 20 Apr 2006 17:46:58 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FWgz9-0004Vu-So for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 20 Apr 2006 17:46:47 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FWgz9-0004Vh-G8 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 20 Apr 2006 17:46:47 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FWgz9-0004Ve-Cb for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 20 Apr 2006 17:46:47 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1FWh0Z-000056-42 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 20 Apr 2006 17:48:15 -0400 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lola.goethe.zz) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1FWgz1-0001yC-Vo; Thu, 20 Apr 2006 17:46:40 -0400 Original-Received: by lola.goethe.zz (Postfix, from userid 1002) id 139781C4CCEF; Thu, 20 Apr 2006 23:46:27 +0200 (CEST) Original-To: Stefan Monnier In-Reply-To: <87zmiforfc.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (Stefan Monnier's message of "Thu, 20 Apr 2006 17:44:21 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:53165 Archived-At: Stefan Monnier writes: >>>> Uh, but the truification has to happen when loading, anyway. >>> No, AFAIK "truification" doesn't currently happen at load time. >> I would consider it surprising if Emacs was able to load files without >> finding out where they are. > > I'd be surprised if you didn't know that if "/foo" is a symlink to > "/bar", Emacs doesn't need to know it in order to load > "/foo/toto/titi.elc", i.e. it doesn't need to first convert it to > "/bar/toto/titi.elc". There must some kind of of misunderstanding. I probably confused the issue with making file names absolute or resolving them in load-path. Sorry, -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum