Re: native compilation units

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
> Cc: Andrea Corallo <akrl@sdf.org>,  emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Mon, 06 Jun 2022 02:12:30 -0400
> 
> > That would explain the behavior I've seen.  If that's the case, shouldn't
> > batch-native-compile produce the byte-compiled file if it doesn't exist?
> 
> Sounds about right, tho maybe there's a good reason for the current
> behavior, I don't know.

Of course, there is: that function is what is invoked when building a
release tarball, where the *.elc files are already present.  See
lisp/Makefile.in.