Re: automake's .el support vs. recent loss of byte-compile-dest-file

[Jim Meyering]

On Wed, Nov 22, 2017 at 8:56 PM, Paul Eggert <address@hidden> wrote:
> Jim Meyering wrote:
>>
>> Do you think it's worth supporting pre-23 emacs?
>
>
> Ha! We just had a thread discussing this, where I wrote:
>
>> currently I would say that Emacs 23.1 is the oldest Emacs we currently
>> need to worry about
>
> For details as to why, please see:
>
> https://lists.gnu.org/r/emacs-devel/2017-11/msg00500.html

Thanks.
Good to know the automake fix will be small.

However, bear in mind that once that May change makes it into an emacs
release, automake-generated Makefile.in files will be broken in that
respect.