Re: Suppressing native compilation (short and long term)

[Rob Browning]

Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:

> 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.  It will default to nil, of course,
> but perhaps it would be convenient to make it depend on an environment
> variable like "NATIVE_COMPILE_INHIBIT"?  Then users (and the Debian
> build system) could say "NATIVE_COMPILE_INHIBIT=true emacs ..." when
> doing testing etc?  Would that fit your use case?

It might?  I'd also suggest adding an EMACS_... prefix
to the variable name (of course I'd suggest that for all of any
program's variables).

Though I'm not positive because if we still really need compilation for
the trampolines(?), then we may need to just follow the "redirect to a
tempdir" approach, which is also fine, and then the ability to disable
native compilation might not be relevant to the packaging.

In either case, we might ideally want an EMACS_... var to make
propagation a bit easier if that sounds reasonable.

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Rob Browning
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