Hello. This patch fixes the bug I reported earlier today: emacs -Q --eval "(byte-recompile-directory \"/home/ryantm/projects/emacs/expand-region.el/\" 0)" writes Error: IO error reading /home/ryantm/projects/emacs/expand-region.el: Is a directory in the *Compile-Log* buffer and does not compile the files. patch follows. Regards Ryan Mulligan === modified file 'lisp/emacs-lisp/bytecomp.el' --- lisp/emacs-lisp/bytecomp.el 2014-01-01 07:43:34 +0000 +++ lisp/emacs-lisp/bytecomp.el 2014-01-02 04:53:00 +0000 @@ -1598,7 +1598,7 @@ (while directories (setq directory (car directories)) (message "Checking %s..." directory) - (dolist (file (directory-files directory)) + (dolist (file (delete "." (delete ".." (directory-files directory)))) (let ((source (expand-file-name file directory))) (if (file-directory-p source) (and (not (member file '("RCS" "CVS")))