Re: windows installer

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Fabrice Popineau <address@hidden>
> Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2017 18:35:19 +0100
> Cc: Phillip Lord <address@hidden>, 
>       Jostein Kjønigsen <address@hidden>, 
>       Jostein Kjønigsen <address@hidden>, 
>       Drew Adams <address@hidden>, Emacs developers <address@hidden>
> 
>  >  > The last step takes an hour.
>  >
>  >  Try "make -j8" instead, and it will end much faster.
>  >
>  > Well, the slow part is still configure, because of the numerous instances 
> of shell that are launched.
> 
>  Not here, it isn't.  The slow part is byte compilation of the files
>  with bootstrap-emacs, until it is rebuilt with byte-compiled compiler.
> 
> Phillip said :
> 
> ./configure ; make
> 
> Since when does it bootstrap emacs and recompile elc files ?

No, he said

  git clone emacs
  ./configure; make

And that does bootstrap.

> And on my machine, ./configure is about 10 times slower than compiling emacs 
> itself (the make -j8 part).

Does configure on your machine take anywhere near an hour?  I doubt
that.