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

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 05 Aug 2022 08:44:12 +0300

> From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <[email-masked]>
> Cc: [email-masked],  Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>,
>   [email-masked]
> Date: Thu, 04 Aug 2022 21:20:35 +0200
> 
> Andreas Schwab <[email-masked]> writes:
> 
> > No loaddefs.el, it has been removed by make distclean.
> 
> Then it should fall back to loading ldefs-boot.el

Shouldn't the build re-generate loaddefs.el early on?  I thought you
recently made it an order-only prerequisite?  So why doesn't it get
re-generated before running the built binary for the first time?