Re: any way to completely disable Emacs eln-cache

On 7/4/24 20:36, Robert Riches wrote:

On 2024-07-04, Bobbie Sellers <blissInSanFrancisco@mouse-potato.com> wrote:

On 7/3/24 20:29, Robert Riches wrote:

On 2024-07-03, The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> wrote:

On 03/07/2024 04:42, Robert Riches wrote:

On 2024-07-02, Carlos E.R. <robin_listas@es.invalid> wrote:

On 2024-07-02 06:19, Robert Riches wrote:

Is there any practical way to completely disable Emacs' eln-cache
while using Devuan Daedalus binary packages, versions in the
1.28.2 neighborhood?  Even better would be to entirely disable
native compilation.
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The cached files cause noise in Tripwire output and make messes
in directories Emacs should not be leaving messes in.  Recently,
I saw .el files being left in /tmp.

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emacs has all the right to leave any file it wishes in /tmp.

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Not on _MY_ machine, it doesn't.  Long-standing tradition says it
is a bug for a program to fail to clean up after itself in /tmp.
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Tell that to systemd...:-)

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systemd?  Not on this machine!!!!!
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A test VM installation of the first Mageia release with systemd
appeared to install okay.  However, on first boot, the boot
process got hung up, waited several minutes, reported some
timeouts, and came up with a severely crippled system.  IIRC,
not all of the RAIDs were composed, and not all of the
filesystems were mounted.  The tools to analyze the binary
registry^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hjournal weren't installed.
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Determined to be one of the last people on the planet to use an
init system other than systemd, I switched to Slackware, then to
Debian, and now to Devuan (Beowulf, Chimaera, and now Daedalus).
If it becomes impractical to use Linux without systemd, one of
the BSDs will have to do.
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 Thank you for the suggestion.  PCLinuxOS was on my list of
options in May of 2016.  At the time, it did not appear to have
csh.
 Thanks.
 

How about tcsh?

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