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: bootstrap compiles C files twice Date: Tue, 03 Jun 2008 23:23:19 +0300 Message-ID: References: <4844F8E0.9080701@gnu.org> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1212524674 23928 80.91.229.12 (3 Jun 2008 20:24:34 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 3 Jun 2008 20:24:34 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, jasonr@gnu.org To: Glenn Morris Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jun 03 22:25:16 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 1K3d4G-0008ON-0F for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 03 Jun 2008 22:25:16 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:47103 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1K3d3T-0003zM-JM for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 03 Jun 2008 16:24:27 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1K3d3C-0003q2-Jz for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 03 Jun 2008 16:24:10 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1K3d3B-0003pL-Iq for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 03 Jun 2008 16:24:09 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=33029 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1K3d3B-0003pF-CA for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 03 Jun 2008 16:24:09 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout1.012.net.il ([84.95.2.1]:25379) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1K3d33-0006CX-PI; Tue, 03 Jun 2008 16:24:01 -0400 Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([83.130.2.23]) by i-mtaout1.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0K1W00AZ6MNORNO0@i-mtaout1.012.net.il>; Tue, 03 Jun 2008 23:38:13 +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:98330 Archived-At: > From: Glenn Morris > Cc: Jason Rumney , emacs-devel@gnu.org > Date: Tue, 03 Jun 2008 14:40:54 -0400 > > Eli Zaretskii wrote: > > > It used to be on all platforms, but I see that the compiler switch to > > set PURESIZE to a very large value was removed on Posix systems. I > > guess they don't care about pure space overflow in bootstrap-emacs? > > If that's true, then we do need to rebuild with correct pure size once > > the *.el files are compiled and bootstrap-emacs can be tossed. > > I see PURESIZE being messed about with in src/makefile.w32-in, but it > has not been in src/Makefile.in since rev 1.251, over six years ago. > > > Yes, but do we really want to maintain a list of those who do depend > > on the pure size? > > It looks like there is absolutely no need. > > Since the top-level Makefile.in is not used by the Windows build (?), > there seems no reason to compile all the C files twice. See my remarks above about overflowing the pure storage while building bootstrap-emacs. I'd advise to understand that issue and its implications first, before we eliminate the second compilation. But that's me.