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

[Robert Pluim]

>>>>> 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).

Robert
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