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feature/native-comp 4f90b0b: Improve NEWS entries about native-compilati


From: Eli Zaretskii
Subject: feature/native-comp 4f90b0b: Improve NEWS entries about native-compilation
Date: Wed, 3 Mar 2021 07:00:37 -0500 (EST)

branch: feature/native-comp
commit 4f90b0b6e6249597cf2e1450b5b9d7f6522c049f
Author: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Commit: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>

    Improve NEWS entries about native-compilation
    
    * etc/NEWS: Add an entry about native-compilation.  Improve
    wording of the entry about 'package-native-compile'.
---
 etc/NEWS | 15 ++++++++++++---
 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/etc/NEWS b/etc/NEWS
index a37a38c..a5ea7eb 100644
--- a/etc/NEWS
+++ b/etc/NEWS
@@ -24,6 +24,11 @@ applies, and please also update docstrings as needed.
 
 * Installation Changes in Emacs 28.1
 
+** Emacs now optionally supports native compilation of Lisp files.
+To enable, configure Emacs with the '--with-native-compilation' option
+to the 'configure' script.  This requires to have the libgccjit
+library to be installed and functional.
+
 --
 ** Support for building with Motif has been removed.
 
@@ -1149,9 +1154,13 @@ key             binding
 / u             package-menu-filter-upgradable
 / /             package-menu-filter-clear
 
-*** Option to automatically native compile packages on installation.
-Customize the user option `package-native-compile' to enable automatic
-native compilation of packages on installation.
+*** Option to automatically native-compile packages upon installation.
+Customize the user option 'package-native-compile' to enable automatic
+native compilation of packages when they are installed.  That option
+is nil by default; if set non-nil, and if your Emacs was built with
+native-compilation support, each package will be natively compiled
+when it is installed, by invoking an asynchronous Emacs subprocess to
+run the native-compilation of the package files.
 
 ---
 *** Column widths in 'list-packages' display can now be customized.



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