Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> From: Joseph Mingrone <jrm@FreeBSD.org>
>> Date: Sat, 20 Jan 2018 16:47:38 -0400
>> Cc: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>, ashish@FreeBSD.org,
>> 	monnier@IRO.UMontreal.CA, emacs-devel@gnu.org

>> Should ACL support be required to _build_ Emacs, even if that build will
>> itself support ACLs?

> There's nothing special about byte-compiling files during a build;
> Emacs doesn't know it is doing that as part of building itself.

> Moreover, building a release tarball doesn't require byte-compiling
> any files, because all of them already come byte-compiled in the
> tarball.  So this problem can only happen when building development
> snapshots, and people who do that are supposed to have a working
> development environment.

> So I don't think we should disable ACLs while building Emacs.

Sounds reasonable.  Thank you all for taking the time to look into this.

Cheers,

J.