Subject: Re: bug#17629: Can't build emacs-24 branch

From: Glenn Morris <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 29 May 2014 15:12:40 -0400

Stefan Monnier wrote:

>> use (setq load-suffixes '(".el"))
>> to try and avoid this kind of problem?
>
> Wouldn't load-prefer-newer be a better choice?

I guess it wouldn't do any harm to have a bootstrap-emacs that was
formed from a mix of compiled and uncompiled files...

The easiest (and IMO sanest) way to do this is to make load-prefer-newer
non-nil by default.
Fancy opening that can of worms...?