Re: Building a tarball with native-compilation support

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Sat, 07 Aug 2021 13:32:07 +0300
> From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
> Cc: larsi@gnus.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
> 
> > Date: Sat, 07 Aug 2021 09:48:13 +0300
> > From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
> > Cc: larsi@gnus.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
> > 
> > > Date: Sat, 07 Aug 2021 09:23:42 +0300
> > > From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
> > > Cc: larsi@gnus.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
> > > 
> > > So I think a better way would be to write a function in Emacs Lisp
> > > that is passed a list of preloaded Lisp files, and natively-compiles
> > > those of them whose *.eln files are either outdated or do not exist.
> > 
> > Actually, such a function already exists: native-compile-async.  We
> > just need to write a suitable function to act as the SELECTOR for it.
> 
> Hmm... I seem to be unable to force native-compile-async to produce
> the .eln file under native-lisp/preloaded/.  Andrea, how can I do
> that?  I tried to set native-compile-target-directory, but it didn't
> seem to help (??), the resulting .eln file is always under
> ~/.emacs.d/eln-cache/ for some reason.
> 
> What am I missing?

Andrea, can you help me out here, please?  How do I tell
native-compile-async to produce the .eln file in native-lisp/preloaded/?

TIA