[ESS] Does M-x package-install compile ESS's e-lisp?
Vitalie Spinu
spinuvit at gmail.com
Wed Feb 13 17:30:03 CET 2013
>> James Jong <ribonucleico at gmail.com>
>> on Wed, 13 Feb 2013 11:19:16 -0500 wrote:
> @Vitalie - Thanks for clarifying this. I do see various .elc files in the
> package folder, but I am intrigued by how it the package manager compiled
> those files without Makeconf (i.e. without the variables LISPDIR, INFODIR
> and ETCDIR in Makeconf). The documentation says that one compiles E-lisp
> using make. If the package installation didn't run make & make install, how
> did it compile the E-lisp code?
Package manager just compiles all the .el code. It doesn't need make for
that. Make is just a convenience utility to automate the process.
Vitalie
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