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26.0.50; Setting load-prefer-newer breaks Emacs startup

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From: Fabrice Popineau <fabrice.popineau <at> gmail.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 27956 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#27956: 26.0.50; Setting load-prefer-newer breaks Emacs startup
Date: Sat, 5 Aug 2017 09:14:05 +0200

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I had to "touch /path/to/emacs/lisp/files/*.elc" after installation to fix
it.



2017-08-05 8:22 GMT+02:00 Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>:

> > From: Fabrice Popineau <fabrice.popineau <at> gmail.com>
> > Date: Fri, 4 Aug 2017 20:52:45 +0200
> >
> > ;; Eval:
> > (setq load-prefer-newer t)
> > ;; and then for example:
> > (delete-selection-mode t)
> >
> > results in an error and the following in the *Messages* buffer:
> >
> > insert-file-contents: Recursive load: "c:/MSys64/MingW64/share/
> emacs/26.0.50/lisp/jka-compr.el.gz",
> > "c:/MSys64/MingW64/share/emacs/26.0.50/lisp/emacs-lisp/debug.el.gz",
> > "c:/MSys64/MingW64/share/emacs/26.0.50/lisp/jka-compr.el.gz",
> > "c:/MSys64/MingW64/share/emacs/26.0.50/lisp/jka-compr.el.gz",
> > "c:/MSys64/MingW64/share/emacs/26.0.50/lisp/jka-compr.el.gz",
> > "c:/MSys64/MingW64/share/emacs/26.0.50/lisp/jka-compr.el.gz",
> > "c:/MSys64/MingW64/share/emacs/26.0.50/lisp/delsel.el.gz"
>
> I don't see this in Emacs 25.2, and I don't have the current master
> installed to test there.  So maybe this is a new thing on master.
>

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