From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#36681: Feature Request: Option to build Emacs without byte-compilation. Date: Tue, 16 Jul 2019 19:06:02 -0400 Message-ID: References: Reply-To: rms@gnu.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 Injection-Info: blaine.gmane.org; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:195.159.176.226"; logging-data="127013"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@blaine.gmane.org" Cc: 36681@debbugs.gnu.org To: Keith David Bershatsky Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jul 17 01:07:09 2019 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1hnWXM-000Wtx-Kg for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 17 Jul 2019 01:07:08 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:52814 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.86_2) (envelope-from ) id 1hnWXL-0001wn-In for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 16 Jul 2019 19:07:07 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:55035) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.86_2) (envelope-from ) id 1hnWXH-0001wV-5m for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 16 Jul 2019 19:07:04 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hnWXG-0007BC-2G for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 16 Jul 2019 19:07:03 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.43]:42461) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hnWXF-0007Au-VO for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 16 Jul 2019 19:07:02 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1hnWXF-00033K-PO for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 16 Jul 2019 19:07:01 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Richard Stallman Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Tue, 16 Jul 2019 23:07:01 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 36681 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs Original-Received: via spool by 36681-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B36681.156331837311677 (code B ref 36681); Tue, 16 Jul 2019 23:07:01 +0000 Original-Received: (at 36681) by debbugs.gnu.org; 16 Jul 2019 23:06:13 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:51282 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1hnWWT-00032H-7y for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Tue, 16 Jul 2019 19:06:13 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:42406) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1hnWWO-000321-Jh for 36681@debbugs.gnu.org; Tue, 16 Jul 2019 19:06:12 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:47920) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hnWWJ-0006Ln-BQ; Tue, 16 Jul 2019 19:06:03 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1hnWWI-0000xN-FQ; Tue, 16 Jul 2019 19:06:02 -0400 In-Reply-To: (message from Keith David Bershatsky on Mon, 15 Jul 2019 16:10:57 -0700) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 209.51.188.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "bug-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:163213 Archived-At: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] We used to distribute the compiled Lisp files, which made installation much faster. They were removed a few years ago, I think to avoid the possibility of variation in building. But this is a big slowdown in building, and I am not surprised some users would rather we included them. -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation (https://gnu.org, https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)