Re: master fails to build on FreeBSD when ACL support is on

[Joseph Mingrone]

Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:

>> From: Joseph Mingrone <address@hidden>
>> Date: Sat, 20 Jan 2018 16:47:38 -0400
>> Cc: Paul Eggert <address@hidden>, address@hidden,
>>      address@hidden, address@hidden

>> Should ACL support be required to _build_ Emacs, even if that build will
>> itself support ACLs?

> There's nothing special about byte-compiling files during a build;
> Emacs doesn't know it is doing that as part of building itself.

> Moreover, building a release tarball doesn't require byte-compiling
> any files, because all of them already come byte-compiled in the
> tarball.  So this problem can only happen when building development
> snapshots, and people who do that are supposed to have a working
> development environment.

> So I don't think we should disable ACLs while building Emacs.

Sounds reasonable.  Thank you all for taking the time to look into this.

Cheers,

J.

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