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> I'm about to build the CVS version of Emacs 21.4.  It's for Windows
> 2000, but that shouldn't matter, in this case.

The code in Emacs CVS, if that is what you mean, is going to be
released as 22.1.
 
> I have done this on Linux some time ago and I remember the built
> process to be *very* time-consuming.  IIRC it took more than 2 hours
> (maybe even more than 4 hours, I can not recall). This is on a modern
> PC, where the compilation of the "normal" Emacs source only takes about
> one hour (probably much less, I can not recall).

Have you actually tried? For me, `make bootstrap' takes about 10
minutes; plain old `make', without bootstrapping, takes a couple of
minutes. I have an Athlon 1.5GHz, which is not old but hardly
cutting-edge.