From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Build-time dependencies Date: Mon, 09 Jun 2008 11:26:18 +0300 Message-ID: References: <20080606155915.GA3953@muc.de> <20080606203541.GA1741@muc.de> <20080607095024.GC1812@muc.de> <20080607200821.GI1812@muc.de> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1213000275 25983 80.91.229.12 (9 Jun 2008 08:31:15 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 9 Jun 2008 08:31:15 +0000 (UTC) Cc: acm@muc.de, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Glenn Morris Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jun 09 10:31:57 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1K5cnE-0004o6-FP for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 09 Jun 2008 10:31:56 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:37918 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1K5cmR-0003lH-7B for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 09 Jun 2008 04:31:07 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1K5ci5-00015R-66 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 09 Jun 2008 04:26:37 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1K5ci3-00014a-E1 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 09 Jun 2008 04:26:36 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=48857 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1K5ci3-00014O-7P for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 09 Jun 2008 04:26:35 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout2.012.net.il ([84.95.2.4]:60040) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1K5chy-0000dn-OW; Mon, 09 Jun 2008 04:26:31 -0400 Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([80.230.28.131]) by i_mtaout2.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2004.12) with ESMTPA id <0K26007JJTGX5FT2@i_mtaout2.012.net.il>; Mon, 09 Jun 2008 11:41:26 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Solaris 9.1 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:98780 Archived-At: > From: Glenn Morris > Cc: acm@muc.de, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, emacs-devel@gnu.org > Date: Sun, 08 Jun 2008 21:49:02 -0400 > > Glenn Morris wrote: > > > I would just discourage the use of `recompile' et al except by those > > who know what they are doing, have slow machines, and need to rebuild > > Emacs frequently. > > PS as a data point, it takes less than 10 minutes to bootstrap on a ~2 > year old dual core machine. It takes 30 minutes on mine, maybe because it was shining and new more than 3 years ago, has only 1 core, and doesn't run GNU/Linux. > It's getting hard to buy anything now that has only one core, even > in a laptop. Well, no one goes and buys a new machine just to build Emacs.