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From: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
To: "Nelson H. F. Beebe" <beebe@math.utah.edu>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: emacs-24.x "make install" issues
Date: Sat, 02 Mar 2013 16:16:28 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5132965C.90104@cs.ucla.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CMM.0.94.0.1362266924.beebe@psi.math.utah.edu>

On 03/02/2013 03:28 PM, Nelson H. F. Beebe wrote:
> 		test -f INSTALLED || hostname > INSTALLED
> 		test "`cat INSTALLED`" = "`hostname`" || exit
> 

This has races of its own, since creating INSTALLED is not
an atomic operation.

Could you instead invoke "make install" on just one host,
and "make install-arch-dep" on the remaining platforms?
That should install just one copy of the architecture-independent
files.  If this doesn't work now, perhaps we should make it work,
or add another makefile rule that would work.

> With today's disk sizes,
> that is a minor difference that I'd be happy to give up, saving time
> in the future for every emacs library loaded dynamically into an
> editor session.

It may make sense to have a build-time option to not compress,
bit I thought the point of compressing was to improve performance
more than to save disk space, since these days CPU cycles are
often cheap compared to I/O.  Have you measured the performance of
Emacs startup with and without compression, if the startup files are
cached and/or not cached?




  reply	other threads:[~2013-03-03  0:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-03-02 23:28 emacs-24.x "make install" issues Nelson H. F. Beebe
2013-03-03  0:16 ` Paul Eggert [this message]
2013-03-03  2:15   ` Glenn Morris
2013-03-03  9:04     ` Óscar Fuentes
2013-03-06  6:27       ` Paul Eggert
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2013-03-05  0:51 Nelson H. F. Beebe

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