GNU bug report logs - #75812
29.2.50; Support native-compiling package-install from batch Emacs

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Message #21 received at 75812 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Andrea Corallo <acorallo <at> gnu.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: Spencer Baugh <sbaugh <at> janestreet.com>, app-emacs-dev <at> janestreet.com,
 stefankangas <at> gmail.com, 75812 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#75812: 29.2.50; Support native-compiling package-install
 from batch Emacs
Date: Thu, 30 Jan 2025 10:29:23 -0500

Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:

>> Cc: app-emacs-dev <at> janestreet.com, 75812 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
>> Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2025 17:35:50 -0500
>> From:  Spencer Baugh via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs,
>>  the Swiss army knife of text editors" <bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org>
>> 
>> > Sounds good to me, thanks.  We'll take patches implementing this.
>> 
>> I'm happy to implement this, I'm just a bit lost about where to start.
>> I tried the obvious "iterate over *.el files in the package directory,
>> calling native-compile", but that failed on various files in various
>> packages.
>
> Why not simply wait till all the async subprocesses compiling to
> native code finish and exit?  Bonus points for displaying some kind of
> status or progress messages while waiting, so the user is informed why
> the wait.
>
> Andrea, is there a better way you can suggest?

Not ATM, I agree having some way to visualize/report the status of the
compilation queue would be nice.

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