Subject: Re: bug#36681: Feature Request: Option to build Emacs without byte-compilation.

From: Glenn Morris <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 17 Jul 2019 19:22:07 -0400

Glenn Morris wrote:

> Richard Stallman wrote:
>
>> Didn't the Savannah repository also contain the compiled .elc files,
>> before?
>
> Certainly not within the past "few years", nor the past 10.
> There was once a "lisp-elc.tgz" file, but it was removed 17 years ago.

PS such issues are better solved by making snapshots available.
Eg https://hydra.nixos.org/jobset/gnu/emacs-trunk/latest-eval
Choose "tarball" job and download source distribution.