From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: how to build emacs without documentation? Date: Tue, 13 Aug 2013 10:51:51 -0400 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1376405842 1555 80.91.229.3 (13 Aug 2013 14:57:22 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 13 Aug 2013 14:57:22 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Aug 13 16:57:25 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1V9G2H-0001eZ-0R for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 13 Aug 2013 16:57:25 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:45457 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1V9G2G-0005Wu-Kp for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 13 Aug 2013 10:57:24 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!news.kjsl.com!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 17 Injection-Info: mx05.eternal-september.org; posting-host="5f9eb4794e6106418b4e0289199f5f03"; logging-data="29086"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX19zkErJkeEMuml8KA6BbhFP" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:S1rnfBbn+nBrEnDTFTjz/lIxfFc= sha1:2/wo43EcuInjT2Ng58+nMMosRyA= Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:200576 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:92843 Archived-At: > Reason: I want to bisect the emacs commit history in order to find the > commit which introduced some regression. Building the info files, pdf > files etc every time is time consuming and not relevant to the > regression. The normal "make" does not build pdfs. As for "info", well, that was pretty much immediate until Texinfo-5.0 came along. So you might like to downgrade to Texinfo-4.x to enjoy a more normal speed. I still have no idea how they managed to slow things down so much. It feels like it's a good 100 times slower. Actual measurement will probably show the slowdown factor to be smaller, but still the difference is insane. Stefan