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bug#10292: following symlinks in byte-recompile-directory
From: |
Stefan Kangas |
Subject: |
bug#10292: following symlinks in byte-recompile-directory |
Date: |
Wed, 25 Nov 2020 02:14:15 -0800 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:
> Sam Aaron <samaaron@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> I noticed that the implementation of byte-recompile-directory has
>> specific code to not allow symlinks to be followed. As I use symlinks
>> to structure my ~/.emacs.d directory, this means this fn doesn't work
>> for me. Is there any specific motivation for not having the following
>> signature:
>>
>> (byte-recompile-directory-sl DIRECTORY &optional ARG FORCE FOLLOW-SYMLINKS)
>
> (I'm going through old bug reports that unfortunately have gotten no
> responses yet.)
>
> Not following symlinks introduced in 1993, but the commit message
> doesn't explain why:
>
> commit e9681c45f9ffd2819410b763338ba58b0b892b78
> Author: Richard M. Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
> Date: Thu Dec 23 03:37:27 1993 +0000
>
> (byte-compile-dest-file): If FILENAME is not recognized, append .elc to
> it.
>
> (byte-recompile-directory): Don't treat symlinks as dirs.
>
> (batch-byte-recompile-directory): Add autoload cookie.
>
> Adding a parameter to the function to follow symlinks seems pretty
> harmless, and seems somewhat useful, so I think it should be added.
Yes, I agree.
> Does anybody object to that?
Let's assume no, since there has been no replies in the last year. :-)
- bug#10292: following symlinks in byte-recompile-directory,
Stefan Kangas <=