emacs-devel
[Top][All Lists]
Advanced

[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

Re: lots of directory changes when compiling emacs..


From: Eli Zaretskii
Subject: Re: lots of directory changes when compiling emacs..
Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2009 21:22:14 +0200

> From: "Alfred M\. Szmidt" <address@hidden>
> Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2009 19:59:05 +0100
> 
> Dunno if this is a "bug" or not

It's a feature.

> but when compilign emacs there are lots of unneeded directory
> changes:
> 
> [...]
> make[3]: Entering directory `/home/ams/emacs/lisp'
> Compiling /home/ams/emacs/src/../lisp/mwheel.el
> Wrote /home/ams/emacs/lisp/mwheel.elc
> make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/ams/emacs/lisp'

They are not ``unneeded'': the rule that compiles these Lisp files
lives in src/Makefile, not in lisp/Makefile.

> this happens for each file in lisp/, and slows down compilation
> considerably.

``Considerably''? what kind of shell do you have there? and what does
``considerably'' mean in quantitative terms?




reply via email to

[Prev in Thread] Current Thread [Next in Thread]