Re: Native compilation on Windows, was Re: Bootstrap Compilation Speed

[Phillip Lord <phillip.lord@russet.org.uk>]

Robert Pluim <rpluim@gmail.com> writes:

>>>>>> On Mon, 17 Jan 2022 20:21:53 +0000, Phillip Lord <phillip.lord@russet.org.uk> said:
>
>     Phillip> Óscar Fuentes <ofv@wanadoo.es> writes:
>     >> Phillip Lord <phillip.lord@russet.org.uk> writes:
>     >> 
>     >>> --without-compress-install switches off the gzipping of various files,
>     >>> such as the info files. It was necessary, if I remember correctly, when
>     >>> I added it because Emacs uses external calls to gzip which wasn't
>     >>> necessarily bundled.
>     >> 
>     >> Isn't the built-in zip support used for uncompressing things (.el.gz and
>     >> .info.gz) when gzip is missing? IIRC that was recently added.
>
>
>     Phillip> I haven't tried! If it does do that now then this switch needs
>     Phillip> removing. It didn't when I added it many years back.
>
> I donʼt know if the builtin zip support works here, but itʼs moot:
> zlib support is optional, so you canʼt rely on it always being
> available (unless youʼre going to ensure that here).

From the point of the windows package, it is under the control of the
packager. If builtin zlib support works on the compressed installed
files, when it can be guaranteed to be packaged.

Phil