Re: [feature/native-comp] breakage on build

[Phillip Lord]

Andrea Corallo <akrl@sdf.org> writes:

> Phillip Lord <phillip.lord@russet.org.uk> writes:
>> Eli, Oscar, Andrea
>>
>> Apologies, I had forgotten that I had moved machines during testing. It
>> was simply the path (and exec-path) that was missing. My own time is
>> mine to waste, but apologies for wasting yours.
>>
>> I am coming to the conclusion that I am going the wrong path here. I
>> think supporting native-comp and keeping a sanely sized Emacs
>> distribution are not compatible objectives. I do not want to return to
>> the Emacs-26 distribution, which included a lot of msys2.
>>
>> I think that the base distribution of Emacs-28 should not include
>> JIT native-comp. If people want this, they should get it through the
>> msys2 co-installation that Oscar and I have been talking of.
>>
>> However, we could just do a full AOT native-comp, so at least the
>> Emacs-28 packages would all benefit. Andrea, can the native-comp branch
>> still load *eln files even if it can't produce them?
>
> Yes, libgccjit is not needed for loading elns.  There might be some minors to
> look at as I've never tested this configuration but should be no
> problem.


For an Emacs compiled --with-nativecomp, how do I stop it attempting to
native compile?

Phil