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Temporary files while building after native-comp merge

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Message #74 received at 48079 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Andrea Corallo <akrl <at> sdf.org>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>, stefan <at> marxist.se, 48079 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#48079: Temporary files while building after native-comp merge
Date: Thu, 06 May 2021 10:12:02 +0000

Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org> writes:

> Andrea Corallo <akrl <at> sdf.org> writes:
>
>>>> So is it writing the subr.elc0EdJIV file, then doing the .eln
>>>> compilation, and then moving subr.elc0EdJIV to subr.elc?
>>>
>>> Yes, I think so.
>>
>> Confirm.
>
> Again, I haven't actually looked at the code, so this is totally
> uninformed -- but do we have to write the subr.elc0EdJIV file before
> doing the .eln compilation?  Can't the .eln compilation work off of the
> contents of a buffer instead?

I think it should be possible, ATM is still the byte-complier saving the
.elc buffer and we delay just the final renaming in comp.el, we could
delay the buffer being saved and do it too after the .eln is produced.

  Andrea

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