On Mon, Mar 24, 2014 at 10:52 AM, Anton Ertl <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, Mar 24, 2014 at 05:19:47AM -0600, Donald Winiecki wrote: >> I have recently updated my Emacs setup to Emacs 24.3 on Ubuntu 12.4. > ... >> "Source file `/usr/local/share/emacs/site-list/gforth.el' newer than >> byte-compiled file" > > I recently read that Debian is disabling byte compilation for > gforth.el. Maybe that has to do with that (although that was much > more recent than 12.4). Anyway, David, you may want to look into Bug > #738819 <https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=738819>. > >> This doesn't seem too serious but from this I don't know if Emacs 24.3 >> is using the older byte-compiled file or the source, and if >> byte-compiling the newer source will do anything undesirable vis-a-vis >> the byte-compiled older gforth.el > > I doubt that there will be serious problems. > > - anton
Okay. I renamed my gforth.elc to old-gforth.elc and this cleared up the symptom noted above. That is, (a) in Emacs 24.3 and (b) after renaming gforth.elc, (c) when invoking `M-x run-forth', (d) Emacs no longer reports the following in its minibuffer: "Source file `/usr/local/share/emacs/site-list/gforth.el' newer than byte-compiled file". So, I guess we know that Emacs 24.3 `prefers' to use gforth.el. This seems to confirm Anton's report about disabled byte-compiling of gforth.el Any other knowledge about this stuff would be welcome. For now, I'm back to the quiet but turgid stuff of creation. Best, _don
