that is then used by the automatic dependency tracking feature
(@pxref{Dependencies}).
-@item elisp-comp
-This program is used to byte-compile Emacs Lisp code.
-
@item install-sh
This is a replacement for the @command{install} program that works on
platforms where @command{install} is unavailable or unusable.
@file{config.guess},
@file{config.sub},
@file{depcomp},
-@file{elisp-comp},
@file{compile},
@file{install-sh},
@file{ltmain.sh},
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