Subject: Re: bug#14513: 24.3.50; Site load-path pieces differ in MSYS build

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 30 May 2013 22:18:20 +0300

> From: Stefan Monnier <[email-masked]>
> Cc: Richard Copley <[email-masked]>,  [email-masked]
> Date: Thu, 30 May 2013 15:06:26 -0400
> 
> He's not complaining about that.  He's annoyed about having removed
> %emacs_dir%/../site-lisp from the load-path.
> 
> >> c:\>dir /B c:\emacs
> >> emacs-111818
> >> emacs-112125
> >> emacs-112416
> >> site-lisp
> 
> > You can still have separate directories like that, unless I'm missing
> > something.
> 
> Except that the site-lisp file now won't be used any more unless you ask
> for it manually in your .emacs.

No, he should just move the contents into ROOT/share/emacs/site-lisp.

> > But you'll probably need that anyway, because Lisp
> > files had better be compiled by the Emacs version that runs them.
> 
> No, they work just fine as long as the compiler was older than the runner.

In theory, yes.