Subject: Re: bug#55969: Feature request: configure option to build Emacs without any documentation

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2022 16:36:59 +0300

> From: Gregor Zattler <[email-masked]>
> Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2022 15:08:21 +0200
> 
> Dear emacs developers, Eli,
> * Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]> [2022-06-14; 14:04]:
> > An optimized build of Emacs produces org.texi in about 30 to 40
> > seconds here, and that is also quite annoying for a production build.
> > Lars recently made significant changes in our build scripts and
> > support code because he didn't like much shorter delays.  We build
> > Emacs many times a week, so these delays add up.
> 
> the possibility to configure an Emacs in order
> to build without any documentation , as perhaps in:
> 
> ~/src/emacs $ ./configure --without-any-documentation [...]
> 
> would be especially helpful for Emacs devs and for everybody
> when doing git bisect with unoptimized builds.

Thanks, but I don't see how can I do partial builds: one can never
know to which part of Emacs will bug reports or submitted patches be
related.