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From: pke@public.btr.com (Peter Espen  pke@btr.com)
Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help,comp.emacs
Subject: emacs and *.el, *.elc files?
Keywords: lisp, emacs, 18.55, .el, .elc
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Date: 11 Oct 90 23:37:25 GMT
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	I have a complete source code distribution of emacs 18.55
that I am trying to compile and build. I have completed the compiling
and building without errors, but I have some questions about the lisp
files in emacs/lisp.  The distribution that I have has both *.el and 
*.elc files in the lisp directory.  A "make install.sysv" loads some of
the .elc files during the make. How can I be sure that these *.elc files
have been correctly  compiled for my machine. Is there a way to recompile
the *.el files so that they run correctly on my system?  I'm very new to
emacs, so please excuse me if I don't have a correct understanding of 
how things are working yet.  Should I let 'make' load the .elc files
during 'make install.sysv' and then recompile the *.el files and reload
the *.elc files from within emacs?
	Any help or explanations will be greatly appreciated.


Peter Espen
pke@btr.com