Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 389081
.elc have earlier timestamps than .el files
Last modified: 2007-11-30 17:12:23 EST
When loading vm, I get a slew of error messages saying that for example: Source file `/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/vm/vm-mime.el' newer than byte-compiled\ file This then causes the SLOWER but "newer" .el file to be loaded rather than the faster but older byte-compiled .elc file. I think to fix this just requires that you rebuild emacs-vm (.elc files) AFTER emacs-vm-el (.el files) Thanks
Which package versions are you using? The bugzilla report template includes these things for a reason - please don't just delete the questions that are present when you report a bug (Versions of packages, Steps to reproduce, reproducibility etc). Anyway, I can't reproduce the problem locally with: emacs-vm-el-8.0.3.495-7.fc8 emacs-vm-8.0.3.495-7.fc8 Are you sure you haven't previously installed vm by hand and so have time stamp skew? emacs-vm and emacs-vm-el are built at the sasme time in the buildsystem from the same tarball, so there shouldn't be the problem you report, unless we have a problem with the buildsystem.
Ah, yes, actually, you're right - there is a time skew: $ ls -l --full-time /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/vm/vm-version* -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5732 2007-10-13 00:44:39.000000000 +0100 /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/vm/vm-version.el -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5559 2007-10-13 00:44:38.000000000 +0100 /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/vm/vm-version.elc I will look into this, it's rather a peculiar problem. Anyway, in the meantime, there is no need to install emacs-vm-el if you want to run VM - you only need emacs-vm.
Have pushed new builds which should rectify this problem - they should appear in the updates-testing repositoriy in the next day or two. If you want to test them sooner than thaat, you can pull them directly from koji here: http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=24734
Thanks - I know that I don't NEED the emacs-vm-el rpm but I do a fair bit of vm hacking so I like to have the elisp source available. Thanks.
As an aside, are you a Fedora packager? It would be great to have a co-maintainer for this package who was familiar with the "guts" of VM - let me know if you're interested in co-maintaining.
emacs-vm-8.0.5.504-2.fc8 has been pushed to the Fedora 8 testing repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report. If you want to test the update, you can install it with su -c 'yum --enablerepo=updates-testing update emacs-vm'
emacs-vm-8.0.5.504-2.fc8 has been pushed to the Fedora 8 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.