Subject: Re: bug#16573: 24.3; Auctex (11.87.2) in Elpa issues hundreds of warnings on compile

From: Stefan Monnier <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 30 Jan 2014 10:34:03 -0500

> And with the ELPA builds, I think it's the same thing.

IIRC there are different cases.

When installing an ELPA package, indeed all the .el files are compiled
within the running Emacs.  There aren't many guarantees of ordering tho,
so it could potentially happen that the style files get compiled before
loading tex.el.

When installing the whole GNU ELPA branch via "git clone .../elpa;
make", then each file is compiled individually in a separate Emacs
process.  But IIRC only the files in the top-level directory of each
package are byte-compiled in that case, so the style files won't be
byte-compiled at all.

        Stefan