Subject: bug#53024: 29.0.50; Wishlist: Byte-compile loaddefs.el?

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 06 Aug 2022 14:09:25 +0200

Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]> writes:

> Doesn't distclean remove the *.eln files as well?  It should, IMO:
> these files will never exist in a release tarball.
>
> If the *.eln files were removed by distclean, then how come nativecomp
> machinery at all kicked in?

I don't quite follow you -- it's when the *.eln files are missing that
the nativecomp machinery does kick in.