GNU bug report logs - #9106
24.0.50; ./configure causes massive recompilation

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>

Date: Sun, 17 Jul 2011 05:31:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: wontfix

Found in version 24.0.50

Done: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #71 received at 9106 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
Cc: bug-gnulib <at> gnu.org, 9106 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, bruno <at> clisp.org
Subject: Re: bug#9106: 24.0.50; ./configure causes massive recompilation
Date: Fri, 22 Jul 2011 09:14:17 +0300

> Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2011 15:00:50 -0700
> From: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
> CC: 9106 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, bug-gnulib <at> gnu.org, 
>  Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
> 
> [...] if the benefit is large enough relative to the cost (something
> that's not clear to me).

People complain about bzr operations that take 15 seconds where git
takes 3, so I'm sure recovering 3 minutes of needless compilation will
be quite a win, at a cost of a couple of additional recipes in the
top-level Makefile.in.
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