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25.2.1: package-install-file and dynamic modules

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From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: pekingducklabs <at> gmail.com, 28345 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#28345: 25.2.1: package-install-file and dynamic modules
Date: Mon, 05 Jul 2021 15:05:48 +0200

Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:

>> I'm not quite sure what the status of including .so files in Emacs
>> packages is now -- anybody know?  (.so files are architecture specific,
>> so I guess it's not something we do generally, but I guess people would
>> want to do it, anyway...) 
>
> Why not build the .so files as part of installing the package?

I think that's the recommended way to do it, but then you need gcc etc
on the client machines.  I can see how it'd be convenient for some
people to distribute pre-built .so packages for (say) a small homogenic
set of hosts.

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