From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Drew Adams" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: RE: Byte-compiled elisp libraries on different platforms Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2008 09:19:33 -0800 Message-ID: <010201c94b34$281dbd30$c2b22382@us.oracle.com> References: <20081120104754.GE6811@groll.co.za> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1227201696 2695 80.91.229.12 (20 Nov 2008 17:21:36 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2008 17:21:36 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 'GnuEmacs Help' To: "'Juanma Barranquero'" , "'Jonathan Groll'" Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Nov 20 18:22:37 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1L3DEY-0000cj-A0 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 20 Nov 2008 18:22:27 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:40210 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1L3DDP-0002Jf-DT for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 20 Nov 2008 12:21:15 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1L3DBu-0001JL-Ml for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 20 Nov 2008 12:19:42 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1L3DBr-0001HB-UJ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 20 Nov 2008 12:19:41 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=41091 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1L3DBr-0001H1-LQ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 20 Nov 2008 12:19:39 -0500 Original-Received: from rcsinet13.oracle.com ([148.87.113.125]:22410 helo=rgminet13.oracle.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1L3DBr-0005d5-AQ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 20 Nov 2008 12:19:39 -0500 Original-Received: from rgminet15.oracle.com (rcsinet15.oracle.com [148.87.113.117]) by rgminet13.oracle.com (Switch-3.3.1/Switch-3.3.1) with ESMTP id mAKHJpMB029302 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK); Thu, 20 Nov 2008 17:19:53 GMT Original-Received: from acsmt702.oracle.com (acsmt702.oracle.com [141.146.40.80]) by rgminet15.oracle.com (Switch-3.3.1/Switch-3.3.1) with ESMTP id mAKHJbGc028208; Thu, 20 Nov 2008 17:19:38 GMT Original-Received: from dradamslap1 (/130.35.178.194) by default (Oracle Beehive Gateway v4.0) with ESMTP ; Thu, 20 Nov 2008 09:19:31 -0800 X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook 11 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.3350 In-Reply-To: Thread-Index: AclK/4QXYITrsW4qSA2MXtFg2ePsEwANC4rA X-Source-IP: acsmt702.oracle.com [141.146.40.80] X-Auth-Type: Internal IP X-CT-RefId: str=0001.0A090205.49259C25.00CD:SCFSTAT928724,ss=1,fgs=0 X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 1) X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:59971 Archived-At: > > 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.