Re: Speeding up the bootstrap build - a quick hack.

[Andrea Corallo]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> From: Andrea Corallo <akrl@sdf.org>
>> Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2022 19:43:18 +0000
>> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
>> 
>> Hi Alan & all,
>> 
>> while building last master I'm getting several messages like:
>> 
>> Source file ‘.../emacs2/lisp/emacs-lisp/comp.el’ newer than byte-compiled 
>> file; using older file
>> Source file ‘.../emacs2/lisp/emacs-lisp/comp-cstr.el’ newer than 
>> byte-compiled file; using older file                                         
>>              
>> 
>> I guess is because of the bootstrap procedure discussed in this thread,
>> is this expected?
>
> Yes, expected.  We trigger this deliberately, so that .elc files are
> used instead of the .el files (to speed up compilation).

Thanks.  I'm wondering why Emacs complains only about comp.el and
comp-cstr.el given I see we touch a bounch of other files.

  Andrea