Subject: bug#5361: closed (Re: bug#5361: .elcs should tell more about the .els they were compiled from)

From: [email-masked] (GNU bug Tracking System)
Date: Sat, 09 Jul 2011 23:16:02 +0000

Your bug report

#5361: .elcs should tell more about the .els they were compiled from

which was filed against the emacs package, has been closed.

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Subject: Re: bug#5361: .elcs should tell more about the .els they were compiled from
From: Glenn Morris <[email-masked]>
To: [email-masked]
Date: Sat, 09 Jul 2011 19:15:36 -0400
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No. I don't see a need to keep this report open.

Subject: .elcs should tell more about the .els they were compiled from
From: [email-masked]
To: [email-masked]
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 2010 02:29:27 +0800
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Let's try to compare two .elc files to see if they are different.

$ diff -a *.elc
2,4c2,4
< ;;; Compiled by [email-masked] on Sat Jul 25 03:33:07 2009
< ;;; from file /home/jidanni/tmp/emacs-w3m/w3m-dtree.el
< ;;; in Emacs version 23.0.96.1
---
> ;;; Compiled by [email-masked] on Thu Jan  7 04:59:34 2010
> ;;; from file /usr/share/emacs-snapshot/site-lisp/w3m/w3m-dtree.el
> ;;; in Emacs version 23.1.91.1
...
Well, what would really help is if along with mentioning which .el file
the .elc file was compiled from, would be adding checksum and some ls -l
information about the .el file. Else it is really hard figuring out if
the .elcs are really derived from the .els currently nearby. (And no,
nobody wants to compile again just to see.)