bug#53024: 29.0.50; Wishlist: Byte-compile loaddefs.el?

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
> Cc: 53024@debbugs.gnu.org,  Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>,
>   monnier@iro.umontreal.ca
> Date: Thu, 04 Aug 2022 21:20:35 +0200
> 
> Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org> writes:
> 
> > No loaddefs.el, it has been removed by make distclean.
> 
> Then it should fall back to loading ldefs-boot.el

Shouldn't the build re-generate loaddefs.el early on?  I thought you
recently made it an order-only prerequisite?  So why doesn't it get
re-generated before running the built binary for the first time?