Re: New installation of GNU Emacs 28.2, (Debian bookworm,) error

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2024 12:19:59 -0700
> From: conover@panix.com (John Conover)
> 
> 
> ls -al .emacs*
> -r-------- 1 xxx users 150523 Dec 20  2022 .emacs
> -r-------- 1 xxx users 150545 Dec  3  2020 .emacs.bak
> -r-------- 1 xxx users  54941 Dec 20  2022 .emacs.elc
> -r-------- 1 xxx users  54863 Sep  9  2017 .emacs.elc.bak
> -r-------- 1 xxx users   7708 Dec 17  2019 .emacs.help
> -r-------- 1 xxx users    220 Feb 10  2022 .emacsheaders
> 
> But ln -s .emacs .emacs.el fixes it.

I think this has been fixed in Emacs 29 already.

But anyway: why are you compiling your init file?  It isn't supposed
to include any significant Lisp code that is worth compiling.