From: phillip.lord@russet.org.uk (Phillip Lord)
To: Noam Postavsky <npostavs@users.sourceforge.net>
Cc: Michael Albinus <michael.albinus@gmx.de>,
Emacs developers <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: emacs-26 3fc05cf: Scripts to automate windows binary distribution
Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2017 16:42:08 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87h8unw7xr.fsf@russet.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAM-tV-9eJTWoQ8xf3o_swxrYEOnYSj6O=UEQ2szaJkkzbCaNjw@mail.gmail.com> (Noam Postavsky's message of "Wed, 25 Oct 2017 07:03:25 -0400")
Noam Postavsky <npostavs@users.sourceforge.net> writes:
> On Wed, Oct 25, 2017 at 4:37 AM, Phillip Lord
> <phillip.lord@russet.org.uk> wrote:
>
>> I started off writing this in bash, but it's such a pain that I ported
>> it to python which ended up much nicer. Given that this file has about a
>> 15-20 minute run time, this seemed a useful thing to me. As it happens
>> it was also easy to make it go quicker which is important because it
>> means that I can do the build in the evening, rather than over two
>> evenings.
>
> Hmm, looking at the python, I don't see anything that couldn't be
> easily done in bash, and if it was me, I would probably use bash for
> this; but if you prefer python I don't see a problem with that.
Oh, it was just the parallellisation step for the source download. It
wasn't a big deal one way or the other, and I am entirely happy to
accept that my ignorance about bash scripting is a major factor.
>> I'll probably port build-zips.sh at some point as well.
>
> Python seems even less advantageous there, since it's mostly calling
> external commands, no?
Yes, that's why I didn't port it.
> PS: With regards to making things run quicker, you might want to
> consider passing --cache-file=../../config.cache.$ARCH to configure.
> It would probably save a minute or two per build.
Good idea; for the pre-test and release builds, I do them clean anyway,
but for snapshots (assuming I start doing these), it would be a
significant win.
Phil
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2017-10-25 7:27 ` emacs-26 3fc05cf: Scripts to automate windows binary distribution Michael Albinus
2017-10-25 8:37 ` Phillip Lord
2017-10-25 10:16 ` Michael Albinus
2017-10-25 10:53 ` Kaushal Modi
2017-10-25 11:06 ` Michael Albinus
2017-10-25 14:44 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-10-25 14:59 ` Michael Albinus
2017-10-25 15:08 ` Óscar Fuentes
2017-10-25 15:19 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-10-25 15:27 ` Michael Albinus
2017-10-25 11:03 ` Noam Postavsky
2017-10-25 15:42 ` Phillip Lord [this message]
2017-10-25 12:11 ` Stefan Monnier
2017-10-25 15:45 ` Phillip Lord
2017-10-26 3:42 ` Richard Stallman
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