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From: Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: acm@muc.de, stefankangas@gmail.com, 58224@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#58224: 29.0.50; "make bootstrap" spuriously warns: "comp.el newer than byte-compiled file"
Date: Sun, 2 Oct 2022 11:32:29 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Yzl2zfvv8aATw5Tj@ACM> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83y1ty1o7r.fsf@gnu.org>

Hello, Eli.

On Sun, Oct 02, 2022 at 14:04:08 +0300, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > Date: Sun, 2 Oct 2022 10:43:44 +0000
> > Cc: stefankangas@gmail.com, 58224@debbugs.gnu.org, acm@muc.de
> > From: Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de>

> > > Instead of inventing a new value that overrides the non-nil value, why
> > > not simply reset the variable to nil?

> > force-load-messages is nil by default, and currently isn't used at all
> > by Emacs.  It seems to be a pure debugging variable.

> > The NOMESSAGE argument to Fload when non-nil, causes the unwanted
> > message:

> >     Source file `foo.el' newer than byte-compiled file; using older file

> > ..  When NOMESSAGE is nil, we get instead

> >     Loading foo.elc (compiled; note, source file is newer)...

> > ..  Whichever setting of NOMESSAGE and force-load-messages we use, we get
> > one of the above messages displayed.  So, I'm proposing using a new
> > value 'never for force-load-messages to mean display neither of these
> > messages.

> I don't want to complicate the public Lisp API because we have a
> singular situation at some point of the bootstrap, and for minor
> aesthetic reasons at that; that is the tail wagging the dog.  So let's
> fix this more subtly.

I agree.

> How about recognizing (inside Fload) a specific time stamp of the
> older file we use (we set it to the beginning of the Epoch, right?),
> and suppressing the message in that case?

:-)  That's a nice idea.  I'll see if I can get that done today.  Thanks!

-- 
Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).





  reply	other threads:[~2022-10-02 11:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-10-01 14:15 bug#58224: 29.0.50; "make bootstrap" spuriously warns: "comp.el newer than byte-compiled file" Stefan Kangas
2022-10-01 14:29 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-10-01 14:50 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-10-01 16:10   ` Stefan Kangas
2022-10-01 18:11     ` Alan Mackenzie
2022-10-01 21:15       ` Alan Mackenzie
2022-10-02  5:59         ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-10-02 10:43           ` Alan Mackenzie
2022-10-02 11:04             ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-10-02 11:32               ` Alan Mackenzie [this message]
2022-10-02 15:38               ` Alan Mackenzie
2022-10-02 15:54                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-10-02 16:46                   ` Alan Mackenzie
2022-10-02 17:07                     ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-10-02 20:37                       ` Alan Mackenzie
2022-10-02 21:29                         ` Stefan Kangas

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