Subject: Re: bug#52773: Master and (probably) emacs-28: locate-library hides .eln files.

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 24 Dec 2021 13:09:39 +0100

Alan Mackenzie <[email-masked]> writes:

> The cause of the problem is in `locate-file' in files.el.  There, if a
> ..eln file is found, it's corresponding .el source is looked up in a hash
> table, and the .el name returned instead.

This also breaks loadhist, but in a different way -- see bug#51308.

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