Re: Pkgs built with 21.5 can't be used in 21.4 (or SXEmacs)

Stephen J Turnbull <[email protected]> writes:

  > Steve Youngs writes:

  >> OK, so here's the problem... elisp that has been byte-compiled with
  >> XEmacs 21.5 cannot be loaded with XEmacs 21.4, or SXEmacs.

  > Yup.  In theory, it's been that way since the very beginning, although
  > it was as late as August 2009 when the door actually got nailed shut.
  > That's why we insist that official packages be built with 21.4 (or
  > SXEmacs should do, but I think Norbert does use 21.4).

Well, here's the thing, the reason this issue came to my notice was
because some of the packages currently in "Pre-release" were built by
Norbert on 21.5.

,----[ from cc-mode's auto-autoloads.elc ]
| ;;; compiled by [email protected]
| ;;; from file /usr/users/nk/pkg-build/test/xemacs-packages/cc-mode/auto-autoloads.el
| ;;; emacs version 21.5  (beta34) "kale" cb65bfaf7110 XEmacs Lucid.
| ;;; bytecomp version 2.28 XEmacs; 2009-08-09.
| ;;; optimization is on
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