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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?