Re: Merging native-comp and pgtk

[Andy Moreton]

On Sat 13 Feb 2021, Eli Zaretskii wrote:

>> From: Andy Moreton <andrewjmoreton@gmail.com>
>> Date: Fri, 12 Feb 2021 22:29:31 +0000
>> 
>>  - The async background compile and intrusive warnings are intrusive and
>>    make emacs unresponsive to user input. The async background compile
>>    is difficult to control (other than disabling completely), or to see
>>    which files are still in the queue to be compiled.
>
> Did you report the problems with the warnings?  If not, please report
> them to the bug tracker.

I mentioned this on 2020-12-21 in bug #45303.

>>  - The dependencies for building .eln files do not work. If the .elc
>>    file for a .el file exists, the .eln will not be built (even if the
>>    .eln does not exist).
>
> Was this reported as a bug?

No. I thought I had mentioned it here or in #45303, but I cannot find it
in the archives.

>> As a pre-existing problem (present in master), the .elc files are built
>> in the source tree, rather than the build tree. That prevents doing
>> out-of-tree builds for different platforms/ABIs from the same source
>> tree.
>
> Yes, we don't yet fully support out-of-tree builds, and that's
> unrelated to the native-comp branch.

I did not claim otherwise. Building the .elc files in the build tree
would surely make the .el -> .elc -> .eln dependencies easier to manage
though.

    AndyM