From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Xavier Maillard Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Byte-compiled elisp libraries on different platforms Date: Sat, 22 Nov 2008 06:25:03 +0100 Organization: GNU's Not UNIX! Message-ID: <200811220525.mAM5P3Lm008745@zogzog.maillard.mobi> References: <20081120104754.GE6811@groll.co.za> Reply-To: Xavier Maillard NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1227331678 16968 80.91.229.12 (22 Nov 2008 05:27:58 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 22 Nov 2008 05:27:58 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: Jonathan Groll Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Nov 22 06:29:01 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 1L3l3F-0003KQ-Am for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 22 Nov 2008 06:29:01 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:49857 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1L3l26-0001nG-5D for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 22 Nov 2008 00:27:50 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1L3l1o-0001n1-BQ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 22 Nov 2008 00:27:32 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1L3l1m-0001mp-P1 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 22 Nov 2008 00:27:31 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=40811 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1L3l1m-0001mm-Ik for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 22 Nov 2008 00:27:30 -0500 Original-Received: from ded1.conovae.com ([88.191.52.166]:36547 helo=mf1.conovae.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1L3l1m-000286-Cx for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 22 Nov 2008 00:27:30 -0500 Original-Received: by mf1.conovae.net (Postfix, from userid 10) id 89F4D260EE8; Sat, 22 Nov 2008 06:26:53 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from zogzog.maillard.mobi (IDENT:1000@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by zogzog.maillard.mobi (8.14.2/8.13.8) with ESMTP id mAM5P46S008750; Sat, 22 Nov 2008 06:25:04 +0100 Original-Received: (from xma@localhost) by zogzog.maillard.mobi (8.14.2/8.13.8/Submit) id mAM5P3Lm008745; Sat, 22 Nov 2008 06:25:03 +0100 In-reply-to: <20081120104754.GE6811@groll.co.za> (message from Jonathan Groll on Thu, 20 Nov 2008 12:47:54 +0200) User-Agent: Rmail in GNU Emacs 23.0.60.12 on GNU/Linux Jabber-ID: xma01@jabber.fr X-UUCPssh-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-UUCPssh: Found to be clean X-UUCPssh-SpamCheck: not spam, SpamAssassin (not cached, score=-4.399, required 6, autolearn=not spam, ALL_TRUSTED -1.80, BAYES_00 -2.60) X-UUCPssh-From: xma@gnu.org X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) 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:60015 Archived-At: Hi, C-h n has this about byte-compilation (for 23.0.x): During byte-compilation, Emacs 23 uses `utf-8-emacs' to write files. As a result, byte-compiled files containing non-ASCII characters can't be read by earlier versions of Emacs. Files compiled by Emacs 20, 21, or 22 are loaded correctly as emacs-mule (whether or not they contain multibyte characters). This takes somewhat more time, so it may be worth recompiling existing .elc files which don't need to be shared with older Emacsen. Xavier -- http://www.gnu.org http://www.april.org http://www.lolica.org