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Temporary files while building after native-comp merge

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From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Stefan Kangas <stefan <at> marxist.se>
Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>, 48079 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Andrea Corallo <akrl <at> sdf.org>
Subject: bug#48079: Temporary files while building after native-comp merge
Date: Sun, 02 May 2021 12:18:35 +0200

Stefan Kangas <stefan <at> marxist.se> writes:

> These files don't get removed when I run extraclean or bootstrap.  So if
> we just ignore them there is a risk that these files will slowly build
> up over time.
>
> Perhaps we should also make sure they get cleaned up when building, as
> in the attached.

Makes sense to me.

> Another alternative, arguably more correct, would be to figure out
> exactly under which circumstances these files gets left over and delete
> them there.  (There is a let-bound `kill-emacs-hook' in
> `byte-compile-file', which might be a good place to start looking.)
> What makes this a bit tricky is that this is somewhat hard to reproduce.

Bug#48141 is about this problem, I think.

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