When there’s a package or a file that should not be natively compiled, there should be a global blacklist variable that controls that instead of relying on a file local variable in order to short circuit this behavior. On 3 Jun 2023 at 2:50 PM +0100, Eli Zaretskii , wrote: > > From: Jimmy Yuen Ho Wong > > Date: Sat, 03 Jun 2023 14:22:41 +0100 > > > > > > Reproduction: > > > > 1. emacs -q -nsl --eval="(require 'cl-lib)" > > 2. C-x b TAB > > 3. Select *Async-native-compile-log* > > 4. The following is printed > > > > ```emacs-lisp > > Compiling /opt/local/share/emacs/29.0.91/lisp/emacs-lisp/cl-loaddefs.el.gz... > > uncompressing cl-loaddefs.el.gz... > > uncompressing cl-loaddefs.el.gz...done > > Compilation finished. > > ``` > > > > Expectation: > > > > This behavior is observed when any packages in ~/.emacs.d/elpa/ > > autoloads and require cl-lib, org or tramp as well. > > > > The simple act of requiring a built-in Emacs package should not trigger > > a JIT native compilation on an Emacs installation built with > > `--with-native-compilation=aot`. > > And it doesn't. cl-loaddefs has the "no-native-compile: t" thingy in > the file-local variables, so the native-compilation does nothing. > > So I don't see any bug here, and I'm closing this bug.