> From: Fabrice Popineau <fabrice.popineau@gmail.com>
> Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2017 18:35:19 +0100
> Cc: Phillip Lord <phillip.lord@russet.org.uk>,
> Jostein Kjønigsen <jostein@kjonigsen.net>,
> Jostein Kjønigsen <jostein@secure.kjonigsen.net>, No, he said
> Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>, Emacs developers <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
>
> > > The last step takes an hour.
> >
> > Try "make -j8" instead, and it will end much faster.
> >
> > Well, the slow part is still configure, because of the numerous instances of shell that are launched.
>
> Not here, it isn't. The slow part is byte compilation of the files
> with bootstrap-emacs, until it is rebuilt with byte-compiled compiler.
>
> Phillip said :
>
> ./configure ; make
>
> Since when does it bootstrap emacs and recompile elc files ?
git clone emacs
./configure; make
And that does bootstrap.
> And on my machine, ./configure is about 10 times slower than compiling emacs itself (the make -j8 part).
Does configure on your machine take anywhere near an hour? I doubt
that.