Re: Dependency graph for Emacs Lisp files

[Andreas Schwab]

On Aug 01 2019, Lars Ingebrigtsen <address@hidden> wrote:

> address@hidden (Phillip Lord) writes:
>
>>> (We need to delete B.elc because otherwise `(require B)' in A.el would
>>> load the old B.elc, and A.el might be byte-compiled before B.el.)
>>
>> a.elc: a.el b.elc
>> b.elc: b.el
>>
>> Changes to b.el would now force a.elc recompilation. If this were in
>> place then the current name based fudge for tests should work.
>
> But triggering recompilation isn't enough: b.elc has to be deleted,
> otherwise compiling a.el will just load the old b.elc.

Unless load-prefer-newer is non-nil.

Andreas.

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