On Sat, Jan 1, 2011 at 8:31 AM, ishi soichi <soichi777@gmail.com> wrote:

> hi. I would like to implement byte-compile elisp files.  Is there a way to
> do it for all files in a directory?
> I tried "M-x byte-recompile-directory" but it does nothing.  Well, only way
> I can think of is dired-do-byte-compile...but it still needs to execute one
> by one.
>

<C-h>f
byte-recompile-directory

will give you help with the command.  Read it and pay attention to the "If
the *.elc does not exist part"



> And also, sometimes byte-compile-file produces errors like,
>
> Byte compile error for
> /Users/ishidasouichi/.emacs.d/lisp/contrib/lisp/org-collector.el:
>
> I have no idea why.  This elisp file is downloaded from the official site,
> so no corrections are made.  There should not be any problem in implementing
> byte-compile at all.
>

I can compile this file fine starting from "emacs -q".

Compiling file
c:/Users/Le/cygwin_home/.emacs.d/packages/org-7.4/contrib/lisp/org-collector.el
at Sat Jan 01 14:01:45 2011
Entering directory
`c:/Users/Le/cygwin_home/.emacs.d/packages/org-7.4/contrib/lisp/'

In org-dblock-write:propview:
org-collector.el:159:31:Warning: assignment to free variable `idpos'
org-collector.el:159:31:Warning: reference to free variable `idpos'


You'll need to share more details if you want further help with this.

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Le