From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Add a configure option for NATIVE_FULL_AOT? Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2021 15:53:38 +0300 Message-ID: <834kbo6xm5.fsf@gnu.org> References: <83bl5w70vw.fsf@gnu.org> Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="31147"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Ulrich Mueller Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Tue Aug 17 14:55:04 2021 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1mFycQ-0007pl-D5 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 17 Aug 2021 14:55:02 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:56490 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mFycP-0003nt-Ds for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 17 Aug 2021 08:55:01 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:54274) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mFybA-0002eY-1b for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 17 Aug 2021 08:53:44 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:55466) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mFyb9-0003nV-9S; Tue, 17 Aug 2021 08:53:43 -0400 Original-Received: from 84.94.185.95.cable.012.net.il ([84.94.185.95]:2929 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mFyb8-000846-S6; Tue, 17 Aug 2021 08:53:43 -0400 In-Reply-To: (message from Ulrich Mueller on Tue, 17 Aug 2021 13:56:28 +0200) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:272489 Archived-At: > From: Ulrich Mueller > Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org > Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2021 13:56:28 +0200 > > > Why would you want to do that? It's in a sense against the original > > intent: Lisp files should only be natively-compiled when they are > > first needed, and stored under the user's home directory. Otherwise, > > you will litter the system-wide directories with a lot of quite large > > binary files, which doesn't seem to be a good idea. > > Storing them in users' home directories also means that every user has > to recompile them, and they will be present multiple times on the > system. No, only the users who need a file FOO.eln will compile it and have it in their eln-cache. > > I'd be interested to hear your motivation for using this possibility. > > The motivation is to compile and install these files once system-wide, > instead of duplicating them in all users' directories. Conceptually they > aren't user specific but belong to the Emacs package. That's... not how this was intended to work. I wonder if anyone else has an opinion here.