bug#58429: 29.0.50; inhibit-automatic-native-compilation does not work as expected.

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Andrea Corallo <akrl@sdf.org> writes:

> Exactly.  I don't think magit is trying to invoke the native compiler
> directly (I don't see any trace of that in magit's source code).  Also
> other packages are reported to show the same issue (probably the one
> with no .eln already available).
>
> If this is the case is just `inhibit-automatic-native-compilation' not
> doing what it promises (read being broken).

It's meant to inhibit JIT compilation:

"If non-nil, inhibit automatic native compilation of loaded .elc files."

package.el calls the native-compilation functions directly, and are not
affected by the variable at all (as currently designed).