Re: how to build emacs without documentation?

[Stefan Monnier]

> Reason: I want to bisect the emacs commit history in order to find the
> commit which introduced some regression.  Building the info files, pdf
> files etc every time is time consuming and not relevant to the
> regression.

The normal "make" does not build pdfs.
As for "info", well, that was pretty much immediate until Texinfo-5.0
came along.  So you might like to downgrade to Texinfo-4.x to enjoy
a more normal speed.

I still have no idea how they managed to slow things down so much.
It feels like it's a good 100 times slower.  Actual measurement will
probably show the slowdown factor to be smaller, but still the
difference is insane.


        Stefan