Re: native-compilation: how to force the .eln files to be built

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Ken Brown <kbrown@cornell.edu>
> Date: Mon, 12 Apr 2021 18:07:53 -0400
> 
> Is there an easy way to force the .eln files to be built if the .elc files 
> are 
> up to date?

No, at least not for some value of "easy".  (How would you do that for
.elc files?)

> I often have more than one build directory for a given source directory.  The 
> different build directories might correspond to different configure options 
> or 
> different architectures, for example.  After building in one directory, the 
> .elc 
> files in the source directory are all up to date.  If I now build in a 
> different 
> directory, the .eln files might be out of date or even non-existent, but they 
> don't get (re)built.

I wrote a script that compiles all the preloaded *.el files, and I run
that script in such situations.