Re: Deferring native compilation finalization until idle

On Sat, Jul 25, 2026 at 4:36 PM Perry Fraser <[email protected]> wrote:

> Stéphane Marks <[email protected]> writes:
>
> In “production,” I run one of the jimeh binaries found here
> https://github.com/jimeh/emacs-builds/releases which disable library
> validation so I avoid the issue entirely.
>
> Gah, sorry, I had misunderstood what you were saying to mean that you
> couldn’t reproduce the issue whatsoever. That clarifies things.
>
> I am not, though I think there are some additional details that need
> mentioned in the PROBLEMS file for this to be an effective solution.
> (Namely, macos-disable-library-validation.entitlements needs to be a
> file with the appropriate entitlement enabled in it[1]
>
> These entitlements apply only to the bundle Emacs.app and its main
> entrypoint binaries.
>
> Perhaps I wasn’t clear—the codesign command currently listed in
> PROBLEMS will not function on its own as it needs an entitlement file
> to read from, which is what the --entitlements flag takes.
>

That file already exists.  See nextstep/templates/Info.plist.in which you
can modify per etc/PROBLEMS.

Also see
https://github.com/jimeh/build-emacs-for-macos/blob/387c2c40aaca4f0140569383f9cabd8ea42ee692/pkg/sign/entitlements.go#L16
for
how jimeh's build process does it.


> I think you’re right that additionally it would need to be codesigning
> the Emacs.app bundle to have any effect, due to what I mention below.
>
> I don’t know if that is the case. I suggested that as an area for an
> enterprising someone to study in case it turns out that running
> codesign on eln files as a post-generation step worked when those
> files are contained in the bundle directory tree.
>
> Well, I wasn’t able to get the jimeh build to load without hiccups
> until I let the eln cache dir be its default of being inside the .app.
>
I don't see that issue when starting a jimeh build from the bundle.

> If you think it’s worth confirming, I can investigate further?
>
If you want to know what's going on, you'll have to investigate more, yes.