distributed.
Automake will byte-compile all Emacs Lisp source files using the Emacs
-found by @code{AM_PATH_LISPDIR}, if any was found.
+found by @code{AM_PATH_LISPDIR}, if any was found. When performing such
+byte-compilation, the flags specified in the (developer-reserved)
+@code{AM_ELCFLAGS} and (user-reserved) @code{ELCFLAGS} make variables
+will be passed to the Emacs invocation.
Byte-compiled Emacs Lisp files are not portable among all versions of
Emacs, so it makes sense to turn this off if you expect sites to have
## Emacs byte-compilation won't create this automatically, sadly.
test -d $$am__dir || $(MKDIR_P) $$am__dir || exit 1; \
$(EMACS) --batch \
+ $(AM_ELCFLAGS) $(ELCFLAGS) \
$$am__subdir_includes -L $(builddir) -L $(srcdir) \
--eval "(defun byte-compile-dest-file (f) \"$@\")" \
--eval "(unless (byte-compile-file \"$<\") (kill-emacs 1))"; \
--- /dev/null
+#! /bin/sh
+# Copyright (C) 2003-2012 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+#
+# This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
+# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+# the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option)
+# any later version.
+#
+# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
+# GNU General Public License for more details.
+#
+# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+# along with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+
+# Elisp byte-compilation honours AM_ELCFLAFS and ELCFLAGS.
+
+. ./defs || exit 1
+
+cat > Makefile.am << 'EOF'
+lisp_LISP = foo.el
+AM_ELCFLAGS = __am_elcflags__
+EOF
+
+cat >> configure.ac << 'EOF'
+AM_PATH_LISPDIR
+AC_OUTPUT
+EOF
+
+$ACLOCAL
+$AUTOCONF
+$AUTOMAKE --add-missing
+
+./configure EMACS='echo >$@' --with-lispdir="$(pwd)/unused"
+
+: > foo.el
+ELCFLAGS='__usr_elcflags__' $MAKE -e
+grep '__am_elcflags__.*__usr_elcflags__' foo.elc
+
+: