Re: subr.el change breaks bootstrapping

[Alan Mackenzie]

Morning, Luc!

On Wed, 24 May 2006, Luc Teirlinck wrote:

>Alan Mackenzie wrote:
>
>   If there were to be any problem with the fix you've made,

>The only drawback I see from loading "jka-cmpr-hook" this early is
>that it will not be possible to load multilingual text from that file.
>This is not a problem now and very unlikely to ever be.  You can not
>load multilingual text from several other files that are loaded even
>earlier either: subr, widget, custom, files, simple and others.

Sounds cheerful!

>   another fix would be to amend load-history-regexp so that
>   jka-compr-load-suffixes is only used inside an (unless purify-flag
>   ....) form

>Is the correct value of jka-compr-load-suffixes ever needed at the
>early stage where it caused trouble?

I doubt it very much.  The trouble only happens at preloading time, and
nobody is ever going to be compressing the files.elc that get preloaded.
And if they did want to do this, there would be other workarounds.  In
fact, there are already several (many?) workarounds in place for
preloading files, so another one wouldn't make much odds.

>Autoloading jka-compr-load-suffixes might also be a solution, if
>allowing for future multilingual text in "jka-cmpr-hook" would be a real
>issue.

Just as a side issue, what does the prefix "jka-" signify?  Is that the
author's initials?

>Sincerely,

>Luc.

-- 
Alan.