Re: Suppressing native compilation (short and long term)

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:

> I asked what the user option to disable native compilation was, but
> didn't get an answer, and here you say "(yet another)", so...  what is
> the current user option to disable native compilation?

Looking at the code, I can't see any user options to disable automatic
compilation of .elc files.  However, there's the confusingly named
`native-comp-deferred-compilation' variable which does the trick.

And looking at this a bit more, having a user option for this won't
quite work, because user options are set in .emacs, and .emacs may
trigger loading stuff before handling user options, so it'll have to
remain a variable.

But should perhaps be renamed to something more understandable, or be
deprecated in favour of a `inhibit-native-compilation' variable?

In any case, initialising this variable from an environment variable
like EMACS_INHIBIT_NATIVE_COMPILATION seems totally trivial.