Re: Trouble with byte-compiling .el files on Emacs update

[Hilko Bengen <bengen@debian.org>]

Michael Olson <mwolson@gnu.org> writes:

>> When semantic is installed or upgraded -- yes. But what happens when
>> $FLAVOR is upgraded?
>
> It ought to call emacs-remove $FLAVOR, followed by emacs-install
> $FLAVOR, which would recompile the Emacs Lisp packages in a
> dependency-first manner.

It ought to, yes, but this dependency-based ordering is not happening.

And, franky, I don't think it's worth the effort to re-build apt-like
logic on this much smaller scale since just using the source files
(.el) accomplishes the same thing and the only thing that would wasted
is CPU cycles for parsing Elisp text vs. Elisp bytecode.

Cheers,
-Hilko