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Re: Timestamp information in .elc files
From: |
Ulrich Mueller |
Subject: |
Re: Timestamp information in .elc files |
Date: |
Sat, 9 Mar 2013 11:40:10 +0100 |
>>>>> On Fri, 08 Mar 2013, Stefan Monnier wrote:
>> .elc files start with a comment like this:
>> ;;; Compiled by address@hidden on Sun Mar 3 23:34:26 2013
> Off with their heads!
Please have only their hair cut. ;-)
The full comment is like this:
;;; Compiled by address@hidden on Fri Mar 8 08:59:18 2013
;;; from file /path/to/simple.el
;;; in Emacs version 24.3
;;; with all optimizations.
Gentoo has a script called emacs-updater [1] that uses the version
information from the third line, by matching the following regexp:
[Ee]macs version \([0-9].*\)
It would be nice if this part of the comment could be preserved.
Ulrich
[1]
http://git.overlays.gentoo.org/gitweb/?p=proj/emacs-tools.git;a=blob;f=emacs-updater;hb=refs/heads/emacs-updater