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: Wed, 17 Jul 2019 18:28:51 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87lfwxzi7i.fsf@gmail.com> 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="227427"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@blaine.gmane.org" Cc: esq@lawlist.com, 36681@debbugs.gnu.org To: Noam Postavsky Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jul 18 00:29:08 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 1hnsQ8-000x1s-2y for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 18 Jul 2019 00:29:08 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:60768 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.86_2) (envelope-from ) id 1hnsQ6-00079l-GM for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 17 Jul 2019 18:29:06 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:36271) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.86_2) (envelope-from ) id 1hnsQ3-00079Y-5u for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 17 Jul 2019 18:29:04 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hnsQ2-00081j-7n for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 17 Jul 2019 18:29:03 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.43]:44304) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hnsQ2-00081f-4n for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 17 Jul 2019 18:29:02 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1hnsQ1-0001da-Ts for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 17 Jul 2019 18:29:01 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Richard Stallman Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Wed, 17 Jul 2019 22:29:01 +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=B36681.15634025406286 (code B ref 36681); Wed, 17 Jul 2019 22:29:01 +0000 Original-Received: (at 36681) by debbugs.gnu.org; 17 Jul 2019 22:29:00 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:53125 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1hnsPz-0001dK-UY for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Wed, 17 Jul 2019 18:29:00 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:52099) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1hnsPy-0001d1-8m for 36681@debbugs.gnu.org; Wed, 17 Jul 2019 18:28:58 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:38681) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hnsPs-0007zB-UQ; Wed, 17 Jul 2019 18:28:52 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1hnsPr-0002MX-RL; Wed, 17 Jul 2019 18:28:52 -0400 In-Reply-To: <87lfwxzi7i.fsf@gmail.com> (message from Noam Postavsky on Tue, 16 Jul 2019 19:13:21 -0400) 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:163270 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 don't think that's the case, compiled .elc files are still in the > latest tarball releases. Didn't the Savannah repository also contain the compiled .elc files, before? However, if nost users who build Emacs from sources get them from the tarball, having the .elc files in the tarball does most of the good. -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation (https://gnu.org, https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)