[OS X TeX] Emacs compilation time

[Thøger Juul Thorsen]

Maybe you had a whole load of dependencies that had to be compiled and 
installed before Emacs??

Anyway, I just compiled Emacs from cvs (thanks to Timothy Larkin for the 
advise!) using the make-package script. Having all the dependencies 
fixed alreayd (I've been running x11 emacs from Fink for a while), it 
took me slightly over an hour on my iBook G4 933 mhz. more than 14 hours 
sounds strange, but as mentioned, if this is the first compilation from 
DP, there might be a whole bunch of packages that you need to install 
first in order to compile and run Emacs...?

/Thøger

Bruno Voisin wrote:

> A question in case there are emacs people listening here: what's the  
> order-of-magnitude normal compilation time for emacs? It's been about  
> 14 hours that I've launched the compilation of GNU emacs on my  
> PowerBook G4 (1 GHz, 512 MB RAM), using the DarwinPorts 
> infrastructure  and the instruction:
>
>     sudo port install emacs +carbon
>
> which means essentially  
> (<http://darwinports.opendarwin.org/darwinports/dports/editors/emacs/ 
> Portfile>) picking up a CVS GNU emacs and compiling it with options  
> "--with-carbon  
> --enable-carbon-app=${destroot}/Applications/DarwinPorts". I've  
> verified with "top" than things are actually happening, in the  
> beginning "bootstrap" was busy and now I can see that "Rez" has been  
> running for about 5 hours, taking about 80% CPU.
>
> Please be kind, this is practically my first compilation, I cannot  
> pretend to really understand what's happening.
>
> Bruno Voisin
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