Re: emacs-29 7fd822e7f5: Update Antinews in the user manual for Emacs 29

[Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>]

On Sun, Jan 01, 2023 at 10:39:00AM -0500, Eli Zaretskii wrote:

>  @itemize @bullet
>  @item
> -Emacs can no longer be built with support of native compilation of
> -Lisp programs.  This means Emacs builds much faster, and the problems
> -that came with native compilation: the need to have GCC and Binutils
> -installed, the complications of managing your @file{eln-cache}
> -directories---all of that is now future history.  The simplicity and
> -elegance of the Emacs byte-compiled code is now restored in all of its
> -pristine beauty.
> +Like its newer releases, Emacs 28 can still be built with support of
> +native compilation of Lisp programs.  However, in preparation for
> +removal of this feature in some previous version, we've deleted the
> +capability of ahead-of-time native compilation of all the Lisp files
> +that come with Emacs.  This makes the Emacs build process much faster.

I am pretty sure Emacs 28 can do the AOT compilation, but you have to export
NATIVE_FULL_AOT rather than using a ./configure option.

-- 
Sean Whitton