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

[Phillip Lord]

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.


I haven't tried! If it does do that now then this switch needs
removing. It didn't when I added it many years back.


>> 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.

Glad I go something right!

Phil