🚀 go-pugleaf

My apologies if this has already been covered, I just started reading
this group.

The makefile for VM 5.32beta (ftp'd from ftp.uu.net) contains the
following command for making the target VM:

$(EMACS) -batch -q -l ./vm-message.el -l ./vm-misc.el -f batch-byte-compile .

This command leaves no .elc files when run using my copy of GNU Emacs
18.58.4 that I can find, yet the next line of the makefile:

	cat vm-*.elc > vm.elc

Leads me to believe that there should be some .elc files around here
somewhere.

The on-line documentation for batch-byte-compile claims that this
function byte compiles the files remaining on the command line.

So what's the "." for at the end?  Perhaps the "." is supposed to
denote that the entire directory is supposed to be byte-compiled?  And
if so, what's the significance of loading the two .el files before
running batch-byte-compile?

I guess what I'd really like to know is which .elc files it expects to
cat together to form the vm.elc, all of them, or just the two that it
loads?  I can take care of the rest.

Thanks in advance.

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