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

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From: help-debbugs <at> gnu.org (GNU bug Tracking System)
To: jidanni <at> jidanni.org
Subject: bug#5361: closed (Re: bug#5361: .elcs should tell more about the
 .els they were compiled from)
Date: Sat, 09 Jul 2011 23:16:02 +0000

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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.

The explanation is attached below, along with your original report.
If you require more details, please reply to 5361 <at> debbugs.gnu.org.

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From: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
To: 5361-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#5361: .elcs should tell more about the .els they were
	compiled from
Date: Sat, 09 Jul 2011 19:15:36 -0400

No. I don't see a need to keep this report open.

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From: jidanni <at> jidanni.org
To: emacs-pretest-bug <at> gnu.org
Subject: .elcs should tell more about the .els they were compiled from
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 2010 02:29:27 +0800

Let's try to compare two .elc files to see if they are different.

$ diff -a *.elc
2,4c2,4
< ;;; Compiled by jidanni <at> jidanni1.jidanni.org 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 root <at> jidanni1.jidanni.org 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.)

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