bug#52376: 28.0.90; libdir is missing from native-comp-eln-load-path with GTK3 build

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Bhavin Gandhi <bhavin7392@gmail.com>
> Date: Sun, 2 Jan 2022 23:09:17 +0530
> Cc: 52376@debbugs.gnu.org
> 
> After running the "./config.status --recheck", it is running
> "MAKE='/usr/bin/make' ./config.status", which in turn starts the build
> again.
> 
> This is happening for Emacs 27.2 as well, the full build log is at the
> following link, install starts at line number 10298:
> https://kojipkgs.fedoraproject.org//packages/emacs/27.2/9.fc35/data/logs/x86_64/build.log
> 
> > And what is "." in this case -- is it the build directory or the
> > source directory?
> 
> "." in this case is build directory build-gtk, which is inside the
> source directory "emacs-28.0.90".
> 
> I was trying to figure out which files change in the source directory
> after "make bootstrap" is run from build-nox. I'm not sure if that's a
> correct thing to look at. I even tried to look at Makefile.in, but I'm not
> sure where to look at and what to look at.
> 
> cd build-gtk/
> ./configure <for GTK>
> make bootstrap
> make
> cd ..
> 
> ~/s/e/e/s/emacs-28.0.90 $ ls -ll configure
> -rwxr-xr-x. 1 bhavin bhavin 1007725 Jan  2 17:54 configure
> 
> cd build-nox/
> ./configure <for No-X>
> make bootstrap
> make
> 
> ~/s/e/e/s/emacs-28.0.90 $ ls -ll configure
> -rwxr-xr-x. 1 bhavin bhavin 1007725 Jan  2 18:14 configure
> 
> The timestamps on the configure, autom4te.cache directory, etc/refcards,
> src/config.in, info (.info files), lisp (.elc files), doc directory are
> updated at this point. The content is the same as it was after running
> "make" from build-gtk directory (I'm tracking the content with Git).

I guess this is because (a) you run "make bootstrap" each time, and
(b) "make bootstrap" changes some files in the source tree.

My suggestion at this point would be to use just

   ./configure <for whatever>
   make
   make install

There should be no need for you to bootstrap when you are building a
release tarball.  Bootstrap is for building from the Git repository.