From: Gregory Heytings <gregory@heytings.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: Dima Kogan <dima@secretsauce.net>, 48342@debbugs.gnu.org, akrl@sdf.org
Subject: bug#48342: native-comp emacs gets into an infinite loop at startup if no .el files are available
Date: Tue, 11 May 2021 17:00:46 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <a8104bf9de1b05014618@heytings.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <834kf95u1z.fsf@gnu.org>
>>> Yes if you want the native compiler to be able to compile files,
>>> otherwise you should either native compile all lisp files Ahead of
>>> Time or set `comp-deferred-compilation' to nil in early init so that
>>> Emacs will not try to native compile bytecode being loaded.
>>
>> That's helpful. Thanks.
>
> Note that if you will be distributing the *.eln files, I think the GPL
> requires you to make the *.el files available. In fact, this is so even
> with the *.elc files. So I'm not sure I understand how you could
> distribute only the *.elc files until now: isn't that contrary to GPL?
>
Why would that be contrary to the GPL? The *.el files are available on
Debian and Debian-derived distrbutions, but Debian has chosen to make the
distribution of Emacs more modular, and each "logical part" of Emacs is
packaged separately:
- the emacs package (which is "a metapackage that will always depend on
the latest recommended Emacs variant") depends on emacs-gtk or emacs-lucid
or emacs-nox (= terminal-only)
- the emacs-gtk, emacs-lucid and emacs-nox packages (which contain the
Emacs binary and corresponding pdmp files) all depend on on
emacs-bin-common and emacs-common, and suggest emacs-common-non-dfsg
- the emacs-bin-common package (which contains the ctags, ebrowse,
emacsclient, etags, hexl and rcs2log binaries) depends on emacs-common
- the emacs-common package (which contains the etc/ directory and the elc
files) recommends emacs-el and suggests emacs-common-non-dfsg
- the emacs-el package contains the el files
- the emacs-common-non-dfsg contains the info files
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-05-11 17:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-05-11 7:47 bug#48342: native-comp emacs gets into an infinite loop at startup if no .el files are available Dima Kogan
2021-05-11 8:37 ` Andrea Corallo via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2021-05-11 8:44 ` Dima Kogan
2021-05-11 12:33 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-05-11 17:00 ` Gregory Heytings [this message]
2021-05-11 17:12 ` Andrea Corallo via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2021-05-11 17:29 ` Dima Kogan
2021-05-11 17:43 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-05-11 17:57 ` Dima Kogan
2021-05-11 18:57 ` Gregory Heytings
2021-05-11 19:11 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-05-11 19:38 ` Gregory Heytings
2021-05-11 19:51 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-05-11 19:59 ` Dima Kogan
2021-05-11 20:23 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-05-11 20:00 ` Gregory Heytings
2021-05-11 20:04 ` Gregory Heytings
2021-05-11 17:45 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-05-11 19:43 ` Andrea Corallo via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2022-07-02 16:44 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
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