From: Richard M. Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
Date: Sat, 17 Feb 2001 13:52:45 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Rewrite discussion of load-dangerous-libraries.
X-Git-Tag: emacs-pretest-21.0.99~340
X-Git-Url: http://git.eshelyaron.com/gitweb/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=a50c7a80f16eabeacc75ef004252c8815c53861b;p=emacs.git

Rewrite discussion of load-dangerous-libraries.
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diff --git a/man/building.texi b/man/building.texi
index 1a2d62ba07d..239a5b5a43c 100644
--- a/man/building.texi
+++ b/man/building.texi
@@ -652,12 +652,10 @@ That's why @code{load-library} searches for @samp{.elc} files first.
 
 @vindex load-dangerous-libraries
 @cindex Lisp files byte-compiled by XEmacs
-  By default, Emacs refuses to load compiled Lisp files which weren't
-compiled with Emacs.  This is because an incompatible change was
-introduced into XEmacs' byte compiler, which could produce files with
-byte codes that cause Emacs to crash.  Set the variable
-@code{load-dangerous-libraries} to t if you want to change this
-behavior.
+  By default, Emacs refuses to load compiled Lisp files which were
+compiled with XEmacs, a modified versions of Emacs---they can cause
+Emacs to crash.  Set the variable @code{load-dangerous-libraries} to
+@code{t} if you want to try loading them.
 
 @node Lisp Eval
 @section Evaluating Emacs-Lisp Expressions