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> From: Pip Cet <pipcet@gmail.com>
> Date: Fri, 26 Feb 2021 19:57:06 +0000
> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
> 
> On Fri, Feb 26, 2021 at 7:44 PM Andrea Corallo via Emacs development
> discussions. <emacs-devel@gnu.org> wrote:
> > As of 42fc752a14 the new configure flag to activate the Elisp native
> > compilation is '--with-native-compilation'.
> 
> I still think we should adhere to the GNU Coding Standards
> (https://www.gnu.org/prep/standards/standards.html) in this case and
> use --enable- here (native compilation is a feature), not --with-
> (there is no external package called "native-compilation" that we
> somehow depend on).

The --with-SOMETHING options are not only for external packages.  We
have other similar configure-time options:

  --with-modules
  --with-threads
  --with-native-image-api
  --with-dumping
  --with-wide-int

etc.