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

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
> Cc: schwab@linux-m68k.org,  53024@debbugs.gnu.org,  monnier@iro.umontreal.ca
> Date: Fri, 05 Aug 2022 13:44:14 +0200
> 
> The issue here was apparently that distclean didn't remove the .elc
> file (and that Andreas was running distclean instead of bootstrap?), but
> just removed the .el file, and that made the nativecomp machinery
> complain.

Doesn't distclean remove the *.eln files as well?  It should, IMO:
these files will never exist in a release tarball.

If the *.eln files were removed by distclean, then how come nativecomp
machinery at all kicked in?