bug#47120: 28.0.50; [feature/native-comp] Stale *.eln files are not recompiled

[Andrea Corallo]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> From: Andrea Corallo <akrl@sdf.org>
>> Cc: 47120@debbugs.gnu.org
>> Date: Sat, 13 Mar 2021 19:43:55 +0000
>> 
>> > Can the FOO.eln file be re-generated if the corresponding FOO.elc file
>> > is being generated?
>> 
>> FOO.eln should be regenerated when FOO.elc is regenerated using make
>> *if* FOO.el is part of the files that are native compiled during the
>> build process (all files when using NATIVE_FULL_AOT).
>> 
>> If this is not what's going on we have a bug.
>
> I'm talking about the *.el files that are not automatically natively
> compiled, they are natively compiled when first time loaded into
> Emacs.

I see now thanks, but I'm wondering why should we native compile it
automatically when the .el is updated later-on if we don't do it during
the first build?

Thanks

  Andrea