GNU bug report logs - #7560
24.0.50; 'bzr status' blocking making of GNU Emacs

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Peter Dyballa <Peter_Dyballa <at> Freenet.DE>

Date: Sun, 5 Dec 2010 16:24:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Found in version 24.0.50

Done: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>

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From: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 7560 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#7560: 24.0.50; 'bzr status' blocking making of GNU Emacs
Date: Mon, 06 Dec 2010 15:31:01 -0500

Eli Zaretskii wrote:

>> Anyway, to me, the question is: why is the build process running bzr
>> status at all.
>
> Because many file ops, in particular save-buffer, in a versioned
> directory do that automatically.

Then I'd ask what the point of having any of that enabled when
building Emacs is. It cannot do anything useful, only slow the build
down; so why not eg bind vc-handled-backends to nil in
batch-byte-compile.
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