Subject: Re: bug#46495: 28.0.50; [native-comp] Build fails for 32bit --with-wide-int

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2021 22:35:30 +0300

> From: Andrea Corallo <[email-masked]>
> Cc: [email-masked], [email-masked], [email-masked]
> Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2021 19:22:54 +0000
> 
> >   comp-7672a6ed-ad0cbb8b.eln
> >   comp-7672a6ed-58fb0518.eln
> >   comp-7672a6ed-9f0b1563.eln
> >
> > Is this expected?  What does the second hash depend on?
> 
> The second hash is the one based on the source file content.
> 
> I see why, every time we compile a new eln we call
> `comp-clean-up-stale-eln' to remove the old .eln.  But we exclude from
> the clean-up the eln system directory (the last in
> `comp-eln-laod-path').

So with these 3 files in that directory, which one will be loaded by
Emacs, and how will Emacs know which to load?

> I don't remember if the reason is that when Emacs is installed this is
> typically read only or there's some other reason.  Probably we should
> remove this limitation and handle correctly the case where we are not
> able of removing the file if necessary.

Probably.  But didn't you try that recently and found that something
broke as result?