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From: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: "'Juanma Barranquero'" <lekktu@gmail.com>,
	"'Jonathan Groll'" <lists@groll.co.za>
Cc: 'GnuEmacs Help' <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Subject: RE: Byte-compiled elisp libraries on different platforms
Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2008 09:19:33 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <010201c94b34$281dbd30$c2b22382@us.oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <f7ccd24b0811200302w9dd064ch27b01236e3787dd8@mail.gmail.com>

> > Does platform matter for byte-compiled .elc's?
> 
> No, unless they did weird things during compilation (for example,
> selecting which code to compile depending on the availability of
> external programs, etc.).
>
> > What about GNU Emacs 22 vs 23?
> 
> If you compile the .el files with 22.X, they should work fine 
> in 23.0.X.

I don't agree about the last part. I have come across things that do not work in
Emacs 23 if byte-compiled with Emacs 22 (and vice versa).

In general, I believe, Emacs has always been platform-independent wrt
byte-compiled code, and it has never guaranteed release-independence.





  reply	other threads:[~2008-11-20 17:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-11-20 10:47 Byte-compiled elisp libraries on different platforms Jonathan Groll
2008-11-20 11:02 ` Juanma Barranquero
2008-11-20 17:19   ` Drew Adams [this message]
2008-11-20 18:08     ` Juanma Barranquero
2008-11-20 18:29       ` Drew Adams
2008-11-20 18:42         ` Juanma Barranquero
2008-11-20 18:56           ` Drew Adams
2008-11-20 11:02 ` Peter Dyballa
2008-11-22  5:25 ` Xavier Maillard
     [not found] <mailman.823.1227178080.26697.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-11-20 10:55 ` Nordlöw
2008-11-21  4:27 ` Tim X

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