GNU bug report logs - #1705
23.0.60; parallel build failure: `mh-e' was not provided

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Markus Triska <markus.triska <at> gmx.at>

Date: Thu, 25 Dec 2008 22:35:03 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 1705 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, markus.triska <at> gmx.at,
        emacs-pretest-bug <at> gnu.org, bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: bug#1705: 23.0.60; parallel build failure: `mh-e' was not provided
Date: Sun, 04 Jan 2009 23:12:58 -0500

>> This won't solve it in general, because there are many circular
>> dependencies among Elisp files.  Another approach is to just close the
>> race condition: write the byte-compiled file to foo.elc.temp and then
>> rename it atomically to foo.elc.
> But adding dependencies is TRT on its own right,

Personally, I've hacked my Emacs so that when byte-compiling files,
`require'd files get loaded from the .el in preference to the .elc file
if it's more recent.


        Stefan
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