Re: The emacs-28 release branch has been created

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
> From: Ken Brown <kbrown@cornell.edu>
> Date: Mon, 4 Oct 2021 09:11:35 -0400
> 
> >    # TARGETS is set dynamically in the recursive call from 'compile-main'.
> >    # Do not build comp.el unless necessary not to exceed max-specpdl-size 
> > and
> >    # max-lisp-eval-depth in normal builds.
> 
> Maybe I'm misunderstanding the comment, but if byte-compiling comp.el and 
> comp-cstr.el causes max-specpdl-size and max-lisp-eval-depth to be exceeded, 
> isn't that a problem for builds with native compilation that needs to be 
> fixed?

No, because the problem doesn't happen in builds with native
compilation, AFAIK.

> If I'm wrong, that's fine, but then it means that the instructions for making 
> a 
> tarball have to be changed to ensure that those two files get byte-compiled 
> for 
> the tarball.

The tarball should be built from Emacs configured with native
compilation, that's true.  Something to mention in make-tarball.txt, I
guess.