Re: Automake 1.7.3 released

[Alexandre Duret-Lutz]

>>> "Simon" == Simon Josefsson <address@hidden> writes:

 Simon> Alexandre Duret-Lutz <address@hidden> writes:
 >> * elisp files are now built all at once instead of one by one. Besides
 >> incurring a speed-up, this is required to support interdependent elisp 
 >> files.

 Simon> Setting ELCFILES= no longer stop byte compilation.

Thanks for the report.  I'll look at fixing this.  By the
meantime it should be enough to add `elc-stamp:' to your
Makefile.am.

In the future I think we'd better tell people who don't want
byte compilation to use lisp_DATA instead of lisp_LISP.  That
looks better than overriding an internal variable like ELCFILES.
(Of course that means _DATA should *not* refuse to install files
in lispdir, as it does now.)

 Simon> *.elc is not removed by distclean, so distcheck fails.

That's just a consequence of the above.  distclean removes $(ELCFILES)...

 Simon> It shouldn't be required to put lisp_LISP *.el's in EXTRA_DIST.

It would be wrong to automatically distribute these *.el files,
as some of them can be generated at build time.  However, I
agree that Automake could support dist_lisp_LISP to ease
everybody's life.
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Alexandre Duret-Lutz