Re: Finalizing 'inhibit-automatic-native-compilation'

[Sean Whitton]

Hello,

On Thu 09 Feb 2023 at 12:11PM +02, Eli Zaretskii wrote:

>> From: Aymeric Agon-Rambosson <aymeric.agon@yandex.com>
>> Cc: spwhitton@spwhitton.name, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, emacs-devel@gnu.org,
>>  akrl@sdf.org, larsi@gnus.org, rlb@defaultvalue.org
>> Date: Thu, 09 Feb 2023 09:40:35 +0100
>>
>> > You could do this in the early-init file, which is processed
>> > approximately at the same place in normal-top-level.
>>
>> If I am not mistaken, the early init file's name is fixed, and is
>> looked for in various places in the user's home. We do not have an
>> existing home in our build environment.
>
> Emacs 29 has the --init-directory command-line argument, which you
> could use to tell it to look for early-init file in a non-default
> place.

This is another case where patching all the third party Makefiles would
not be a technically correct solution, speaking as distribution packagers.

-- 
Sean Whitton