bug#46495: 28.0.50; [native-comp] Build fails for 32bit --with-wide-int

[Michael Welsh Duggan <mwd@md5i.com>]

Andrea Corallo via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of
text editors" <bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org> writes:

> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>
>>> From: Andrea Corallo <akrl@sdf.org>
>>> Cc: andrewjmoreton@gmail.com, 46495@debbugs.gnu.org
>>> Date: Thu, 01 Apr 2021 07:07:53 +0000
>>> 
>>> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>>> 
>>> >> From: Andrea Corallo <akrl@sdf.org>
>>> >> Cc: andrewjmoreton@gmail.com, 46495@debbugs.gnu.org
>>> >> Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2021 19:43:17 +0000
>>> >> 
>>> >> > So with these 3 files in that directory, which one will be loaded by
>>> >> > Emacs, and how will Emacs know which to load?
>>> >> 
>>> >> Emacs will scan and hash the source file and load the correct one if
>>> >> present.
>>> >
>>> > And if the source file isn't available?
>>> 
>>> No eln will be loaded.
>>
>> Ouch!  That's a general issue, then, not just when there are multiple
>> copies of *.eln for the same .el file, right?  IOW, if Emacs is
>> installed such that the *.el files are not available, it will not load
>> the *.eln files, only the *.elc files.  I think we should at least
>> produce a run-time warning about that.
>
> Correct, okay the warning should not be a problem (taking note into my
> todo).
>
> Do we really have installations with no source code?

At least in the Debian distribution, the package containing the .el
files are not a direct dependency but a recommended dependency.

-- 
Michael Welsh Duggan
(md5i@md5i.com)