Stephen J. Turnbull writes:
>>>>> "KB" == Krishnakumar B
<Krishnakumar> writes:
KB> Now I find that /usr/lib/xemacs-21.4.8/lisp/*.el[c]
KB> have permissions set to the user who compiled XEmacs
KB> and not root.
For some reason (efficiency?) the lisp files are copied using tar cf -
| tar xf -.
It preserves file modification times, which keeps .el's older than
.elc's.