From 7343b0d0e4a1e665f99ea4473c1a4e4a13081e96 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Eli Zaretskii Date: Sat, 6 Nov 2021 15:02:57 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] ; * etc/NEWS: Native compilation is more picky about missing dependencies. --- etc/NEWS | 6 ++++++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) 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 -- 2.39.5