From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: `--with-small-ja-dic` Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2024 15:57:03 +0200 Message-ID: <86a5o1x234.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87jzn6zexb.fsf@yahoo.com> <87bk8iz43q.fsf@yahoo.com> <86eddevxqi.fsf@gnu.org> Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="25290"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: luangruo@yahoo.com, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Ulrich Mueller Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Thu Feb 15 14:58:01 2024 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1racFV-0006EV-It for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 15 Feb 2024 14:58:01 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1racEg-0004p8-5k; Thu, 15 Feb 2024 08:57:10 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1racEe-0004ow-H4 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 15 Feb 2024 08:57:08 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1racEc-0002yd-W1; Thu, 15 Feb 2024 08:57:07 -0500 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gnu.org; s=fencepost-gnu-org; h=References:Subject:In-Reply-To:To:From:Date: mime-version; bh=J/Tn1uxxKKI3jnZ6hjwYdA7nQKPaBUDy4K3afMUhy+s=; b=kMHNWNHhWw6r Oasz9Dk79g3LIjKt1OHIEOvB5PW8tT/kK4ZWDD/LgoAQT1fawduU2WlUrUZ/qAO+4wm+wBnSBoDdp 7HFFskGpTutKnlWT8/abDNIvPShh6DiB+VVatC90r+wvWQqid2KVkuO4ZR1QMtA6aREO9ZVGv52Ca M/BuyETCWDhw1tEkB/sOZ1EY0o4U9WmPnA+JxyI8ffXvi+26FCdm3RH1nzEEy8cQN2/sL4tLjAlrw cACMxOt9jv6tvVB/sGPqWY4FN/hOavJMpogbe68GDKyQru57Szpl0/JpvYc05oOfzEcvvBY1dNOXU TJ6RYjUxdM1yTj9tUXhGrg==; In-Reply-To: (message from Ulrich Mueller on Thu, 15 Feb 2024 14:11:42 +0100) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:316232 Archived-At: > From: Ulrich Mueller > Cc: luangruo@yahoo.com, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, emacs-devel@gnu.org > Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2024 14:11:42 +0100 > > >>>>> On Thu, 15 Feb 2024, Eli Zaretskii wrote: > > >> I wonder if the option couldn't be replaced by another one like > >> --without-ja-dic? That would reduce both the installation footprint > >> and the compile time. > >> > >> Rationale is that Japanese users may prefer the large file, but users > >> who don't speak Japanese don't need the file at all. > > > How is this different from any other dictionary we produce as part of > > the build? E.g., ZIRANMA is also large. > > Other dictionaries don't need a progress report of their long build > time. :) There are other files whose build or compilation is slow, for example, loaddefs.el and ucs-normalize.el. However, if you build Emacs with "make -jN", this time is not wasted.