Re: New installation of GNU Emacs 28.2, (Debian bookworm,) error

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2024 11:55:59 -0700
> From: conover@panix.com (John Conover)
> 
> 
> emacs filename yields
> 
>     Warning (comp): Cannot look-up eln file as no source file was found for 
> /home/xxx/.emacs.elc Disable showing Disable logging
> 
> What is an eln file?

It's the result of native compilation.

The message tells you that Emacs is unable to find whether your system
has a .eln file corresponding to your .emacs.elc because it cannot
find the source file .emacs.el or .emacs that was byte-compiled into
.emacs.elc.