bug#46256: [feature/native-comp] AOT eln files ignored if run from build tree

[Andrea Corallo]

Andy Moreton <andrewjmoreton@gmail.com> writes:

> On Sat 27 Feb 2021, Andy Moreton wrote:
>
>> On Sat 27 Feb 2021, Andrea Corallo via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss 
>> army knife of text editors" wrote:
>>
>>> Andy Moreton <andrewjmoreton@gmail.com> writes:
>>>> There are still some elisp files that did not get native compiled when
>>>> the build was done with "make -j8 NATIVE_FULL_AOT=1", and so get async
>>>> compiled when running the built emacs:
>>>>
>>>>   ansi-color auth_source byte-opt bytecomp cconv cl-extra cl-lib cl-macs
>>>>   cl-seq comint comp comp-cstr cus-edit cus-start desktop
>>>>   display-fill-column-indicator easy-mmode easymenu edmacro eieio
>>>>   eieio-core frameset gv help-mode hl-line image-file info json kmacro
>>>>   map minibuf-eldef package paren password-cache pcase pp ring rx seq
>>>>   subr-x time-date warnings wid-edit
>>>>
>>>> That may be a result of the error during the build.
>>>
>>> Mmmmh, that's strange some of these are even compiled as COMPILE_FIRST
>>> therfore are certainly native compiled.
>>
>> I suspect that the issue may be with parallel builds (note the "-j8"
>> above). Repeating the build with "-j1" appears to be building the
>> missing .eln files as expected.
>
> Now that the -j1 build has completed (without error), all of the lisp
> files have been compiled AOT as expected, and running the resulting
> emacs does not rebuild any of those .eln files.
>
> So I think there are still some other issues with dependencies and
> handling parallel builds, but this bug has been fixed.

Thanks for checking, I'm closing then.

  Andrea