Subject: Re: bug#10125: 24.0.91; package.el (org): Macros in tar packages & order of byte compilation

From: Chong Yidong <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 25 Nov 2011 22:07:40 +0800

Glenn Morris <[email-masked]> writes:

> Glenn Morris wrote:
>
>> fresh Emacs instance. There's no reason the "package manager" could not
>> spawn a separate Emacs in batch-mode as a sub-job to do the compilation.
>
> Very lightly tested version:

This uses the Emacs executable on the exec path, which might not be the
correct one.

I'm wary of making such a fundamental change to package.el without first
exploring possible package-specific work-arounds.  Could problematic
packages use an eval-when-compile form to forcibly load the correct
version of the required file?