From: Eli Zaretskii Date: Sat, 6 Nov 2021 13:02:57 +0000 (+0200) Subject: ; * etc/NEWS: Native compilation is more picky about missing dependencies. X-Git-Tag: emacs-28.0.90~114 X-Git-Url: http://git.eshelyaron.com/gitweb/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=7343b0d0e4;p=emacs.git ; * etc/NEWS: Native compilation is more picky about missing dependencies. --- diff --git a/etc/NEWS b/etc/NEWS index cc4cdfe5b67..9ed340ae6a7 100644 --- a/etc/NEWS +++ b/etc/NEWS @@ -36,6 +36,12 @@ to configure with the '--without-compress-install' option, so that the installed *.el files are not compressed; otherwise, you will not be able to use JIT native compilation of the installed *.el files. +Note that JIT native compilation is done in a fresh session of Emacs +that is run in a subprocess, so it can legitimately report some +warnings and errors that aren't uncovered by byte-compilation. We +recommend examining any such warnings before you decide they are +false. + ** The Cairo graphics library is now used by default if present. '--with-cairo' is now the default, if the appropriate development files are found by 'configure'. Note that building with Cairo means using