GNU bug report logs - #52773
Master and (probably) emacs-28: locate-library hides .eln files.

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Alan Mackenzie <acm <at> muc.de>

Date: Fri, 24 Dec 2021 11:23:02 UTC

Severity: normal

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From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Alan Mackenzie <acm <at> muc.de>
Cc: 52773 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#52773: Master and (probably) emacs-28: locate-library hides .eln files.
Date: Fri, 24 Dec 2021 13:09:39 +0100
Alan Mackenzie <acm <at> muc.de> 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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