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native-comp emacs gets into an infinite loop at startup if no .el files are available

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From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Andrea Corallo <akrl <at> sdf.org>
Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>, Dima Kogan <dima <at> secretsauce.net>, 48342 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#48342: native-comp emacs gets into an infinite loop at startup if no .el files are available
Date: Sat, 02 Jul 2022 18:44:35 +0200

Andrea Corallo <akrl <at> sdf.org> writes:

>> I guess when we find that a source for some .elc file is not
>> available, we should add its .el name to
>> native-comp-deferred-compilation-deny-list?
>
> Good idea that's probably the best fix.  I'll come-up with a patch for
> this.

I did an even simpler fix in Emacs 29 -- if we're in an Emacs without
.el files, I make maybe_swap_for_eln disable the warning, and that seems
to fix the issue.  (I check for "simple.el" -- if we don't have that,
then we probably don't have any .el files.)

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