Re: The emacs-28 release branch has been created

[Ken Brown <kbrown@cornell.edu>]

On 10/3/2021 5:27 AM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> From: Ken Brown <kbrown@cornell.edu>
>> Date: Sat, 2 Oct 2021 21:35:36 -0400
>>
>> On 9/30/2021 2:30 PM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>>> Barring any unexpected calamities, the first pretest of Emacs 28 will
>>> be produced from this branch in a few weeks' time.
>>
>> I apologize in advance if this has already been answered somewhere, but I'm
>> curious how building from a pretest tarball will work for people who want to
>> test native compilation.  Release tarballs always contain *.elc files, which
>> seem to inhibit the creation of the preloaded *.eln files.
>>
>> I had assumed that commit 90655e4bc0 was intended to deal with this, but I'm not
>> able to see how it will work.
> 
> Good question.  That commit was indeed supposed to deal with this, but
> I didn't yet have time to actually test it with a sample tarball, so
> it could include bugs (I'm not too proficient with Make wizardry, and
> the problem was not trivial to fix).  If you have time to produce a
> tarball from the emacs-28 branch (the instructions are in
> admin/make-tarball.txt) and then try building it, perhaps you could
> test this and report any problems.  If not, I will get to that soon
> enough.

I'll try that later today.  In the meantime, I did notice one bug: 
src/Makefile.in is missing

   HAVE_NATIVE_COMP = @HAVE_NATIVE_COMP@

Ken