Re: [External] : Emacs pretest 28.0.91 is out

[Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>]

> From: Corwin Brust <corwin@bru.st>
> Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2022 22:07:41 -0600
> Cc: Po Lu <luangruo@yahoo.com>, Stefan Kangas <stefan@marxist.se>,
>  Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>,
>  "emacs-devel@gnu.org" <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
> 
> I've placed my very first successfully built redistributables for
> windows into a repo on sourcehut.  I'd be grateful for any reports of
> trouble, suggestions, or confirmation these work for others.

Thank you for your work on this.

> Please note that this build does **not** enable native-compilation nor
> does it include gccjit (in deps).  I'm working on the assumption that
> the Phillip's build scripts should be enhanced so we can build (and
> distribute) windows binaries both with and without native compilation
> enabled.

I'm not sure this is correct/justified.  Wouldn't it be better to have
just one build that could support both variants?  It is supposed to
work that way, but I don't think anyone tested this in practice.  It
would be good to see if that indeed works as intended, and if not,
report the issues which prevent that.

Specifically, I suggest to build Emacs _with_ native-compilation
support, then try using that on a system that has neither libgccjit
nor gcc/Binutils installed.

Thanks.