Re: [External] : emacs-28 windows binaries available from alpha

[Andrea Corallo]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> From: Andrea Corallo <akrl@sdf.org>
>> Cc: dieter@duenenhof-wilhelm.de, corwin@bru.st, emacs-devel@gnu.org
>> Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2022 14:44:05 +0000
>> 
>> Say the user did, but for some reason Emacs can't find libgccjit even if
>> the user thought it's installed correctly.
>
> This is highly unlikely.  I don't even understand how it could happen.

Dunno I know nothing about Windows, but maybe there's some env var that
needs to point where the dynamic linker can find the dll and this can be
missconfigured?

>> How the user is supposed to detect this if we made it all
>> transparent?
>
> The user will eventually see that JIT native compilation doesn't
> happen and Lisp packages used by Emacs aren't being compiled.

If he pays attention to that and he verifies, otherwise the system is
designed to be quite transparent.

Best Regards

  Andrea