On Fri, Jan 3, 2020 at 6:13 PM Karl Berry <k...@freefriends.org> wrote: > > Sigh. I failed to note that vc-dwim did not dwim; my summary first line > was once again not recognized. (And I guess I should update the date.) > I'll figure that out before pushing, but anyway, the content of the > patch is what really needs review. Here's the actual ChangeLog entry as > written ... -k > > 2020-01-03 Karl Berry <k...@freefriends.org> > > automake: Support byte compilation in older Emacsen > > * lib/am/lisp.am (am__emacs_byte_compile_setup) [FIRST]: define > new make variable, to use byte-compile-dest-file-function if > available, else byte-compile-dest-file. > (.el.elc): use it. > * t/lisp-loadpath.sh: skip test if emacs version is <= 23, > since their -L ordering is backwards. > * NEWS: update.
Thank you for doing that. It looks fine to me. One request: In this: +emacs_major=$(${EMACS-emacs} --version | sed -e 's/.* //' -e 's/\..*$//' -e 1q) please use this same-functionality sed command. I prefer to eliminate such uses of -e and to reduce quote count: sed 's/.* //;s/\..*$//;1q'