bug#48743: 28.0.50; batch-native-compile should produce .elc files as well

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

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> From: Andrea Corallo <akrl@sdf.org>
>> Cc: raman@google.com, 48743@debbugs.gnu.org
>> Date: Mon, 31 May 2021 18:27:10 +0000
>> 
>> > Yes, we should rename it,
>> 
>> Agree, what should be a good name for that?
>
> How about batch-byte+native-compile ?

Sounds good.

>> > and we should also provide an easy way of
>> > controlling where the *.eln files are deposited, since currently that
>> > function is tightly coupled with the Emacs build process and the
>> > directory structure of the Emacs source tree.
>> 
>> ATM one could push the new target directory in
>> `native-comp-eln-load-path' maybe using -eval just before invoking the
>> batch compilation
>
> Yes, I thought about this, but it could cause unintended consequences,
> and in any case I wouldn't call that "easy".  Can we have a simple
> variable that could be bound via --eval?

How would you suggest this variable to behave?

Thanks

  Andrea