Re: lisp/gnus/.dir-locals.el

[Juanma Barranquero]

On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 23:25, Glenn Morris <address@hidden> wrote:

> It was only supposed to fix the Unix `make recompile'. There is no
> bootstrap issue on Unix builds.

Because of the fact that *.el does not expand dotfiles. Which is, as
Eli said, black magic.

> If Emacs is explicitly passed a file name via batch-byte-compile, IMO
> it ought to try and compile that file regardless of its name. So
> either change the Windows build to exclude dotfiles

That could be a bit of a PITA.

> or simply add a
> no-byte-compile cookie to any .dir-locals.el that might be added below
> lisp/.

Yes, I proposed as much a few messages ago. Apparently, Stefan disagrees.

    Juanma