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28.0.50; Native-compiled files of some preloaded files not loaded at dump time

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Message #44 received at 48578 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: "Basil L. Contovounesios" <contovob <at> tcd.ie>
Cc: 48578 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, akrl <at> sdf.org
Subject: Re: bug#48578: 28.0.50; Native-compiled files of some preloaded
 files not loaded at dump time
Date: Tue, 25 May 2021 21:15:54 +0300

> From: "Basil L. Contovounesios" <contovob <at> tcd.ie>
> Cc: Andrea Corallo <akrl <at> sdf.org>,  48578 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Tue, 25 May 2021 19:13:02 +0100
> 
> Andrea Corallo via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of
> text editors" <bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org> writes:
> 
> > Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:
> >
> >> Thanks, I will try that.  But why not use realpath at all times, even
> >> if file-truename is available?  They do the same thing, AFAIK, no?
> >
> > AFAIK yes but the file-truename implementation didn't look sufficiently
> > trivial to be sure they are really equivalent with the quick skim I had.
> 
> The main difference is that file-truename heeds file name handlers, no?

Yes, but is that an issue when building Emacs or, more generally,
native-compiling *.el files?

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