Re: Suppressing native compilation (short and long term)

[Andrea Corallo]

Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:

> Rob Browning <rlb@defaultvalue.org> writes:
>
>> At the top level, we wanted a way to avoid writing to HOME during
>> packaging, testing, installs (in this case, it's the .eln files, now
>> that we've enabled native compilation).
>>
>> That could be handled by some way to turn off native compilation, or by
>> some way to comprehensively divert those writes to another location
>> (e.g. temp dir).  Either is fine, though we'd originally thought the
>> former might make things a bit easier.
>
> Yeah, I think the former is both easier to implement and easier for
> users.
>
> So I'm thinking of introducing a user option like
> `native-compile-inhibit', which will make Emacs skip the native-comp
> machinery when loading .elc files.

IIUC this would just control `load-no-native' and
`native-comp-deferred-compilation'?  I think these two are doing what
you suggest here no?

  Andrea