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

[Óscar Fuentes]

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.

> I do not remember why I added --without-dbus.

Probably because the dbus libraries might be present on the system and
Emacs would pick up them, which is not a good thing.