Subject: bug#66125: 29.1; configure --with-small-ja-dic has no effect

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2023 20:02:19 +0300

> From: Ulrich Mueller <[email-masked]>
> Cc: [email-masked]
> Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2023 18:58:29 +0200
> 
> >>>>> On Wed, 20 Sep 2023, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> 
> > Please tell more details:
> 
> >   . how did you build Emacs with this option? please show all the
> >     steps, starting from unpacking the tarball
> 
> $ tar xf /var/cache/distfiles/emacs-29.1.tar.xz
> $ cd emacs-29.1
> $ ./configure --with-small-ja-dic
> [...]
>   Does Emacs generate a smaller-size Japanese dictionary? yes
> [...]
> $ make
> [...]
> $ ls -l lisp/leim/ja-dic/
> total 9120
> -rw-r--r-- 1 ulm users 4798823 Jul 23 10:11 ja-dic.el
> -rw-r--r-- 1 ulm users 4535697 Jul 23 10:11 ja-dic.elc
> 
> >   . how is SMALL_JA_DIC defined in leim/Makefile when you configure
> >     with this option?
> 
> $ grep ^SMALL_JA_DIC leim/Makefile
> SMALL_JA_DIC = yes
> 
> >   . when (on what date) did you try building Emacs with that option?
> 
> 2023-09-20, i.e. today.

OK, thanks.  In its current form, this option will only make a
difference if you remove the ja-dic files that came with the tarball,
and then rebuild.  We should improve this, although it strikes me that
such an obscure feature, which is also not recommended, perhaps
doesn't deserve the effort...