From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: jmarant@nerim.net (=?iso-8859-15?q?J=E9r=F4me_Marant?=) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Questions about fns.el Date: Sun, 21 Mar 2004 13:11:59 +0100 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <87fzc2e6wg.fsf@marant.org> References: <87r7vnsl1l.fsf@marant.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1079871303 29276 80.91.224.253 (21 Mar 2004 12:15:03 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 21 Mar 2004 12:15:03 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Sun Mar 21 13:14:58 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1B51r0-0002vT-00 for ; Sun, 21 Mar 2004 13:14:58 +0100 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1B51qz-0002JJ-00 for ; Sun, 21 Mar 2004 13:14:57 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1B51n8-0003ka-FA for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Sun, 21 Mar 2004 07:10:58 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.30) id 1B51mL-0003kE-Ui for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 21 Mar 2004 07:10:09 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.30) id 1B51lo-0003PJ-1t for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 21 Mar 2004 07:10:07 -0500 Original-Received: from [62.4.17.100] (helo=mallaury.noc.nerim.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1B51ln-0003PA-Gs; Sun, 21 Mar 2004 07:09:35 -0500 Original-Received: from amboise (jmarant.net1.nerim.net [62.212.105.6]) by mallaury.noc.nerim.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id AD0AD62D40; Sun, 21 Mar 2004 13:09:29 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: by amboise (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 299E22C161; Sun, 21 Mar 2004 13:12:00 +0100 (CET) Original-To: rms@gnu.org In-Reply-To: (Richard Stallman's message of "Sun, 21 Mar 2004 00:00:21 -0500") User-Agent: Gnus/5.1006 (Gnus v5.10.6) Emacs/21.3 (gnu/linux) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.4 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:20678 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:20678 Richard Stallman writes: > We have eliminated fns.el nowadays, but here are the answers. I noticed this. I should have mentioned the current stable version. My question was related to a Debian user who asked for fns.el byte-compiling. > > I have two questions about fns.el: > - Why is it installed in an architecture-dependent location > i.e. /usr/lib/emacs/21.3/ ? > > Because different platforms might have different primitive functions. > > - Why isn't it byte-compiled? > > Because compiling it would not give any benefit. Thanks very much. --=20 J=E9r=F4me Marant http://marant.org