Re: Bootstrap time on MS-Windows

[Óscar Fuentes]

Dani Moncayo <address@hidden> writes:

> For the record: on my laptop (Intel Core i5-2410M @ 2.30GHz), these
> are the times of a "mingw32-make -j8 bootstrap"  (preceded by a
> "mingw32-make distclean" + "configure ..."):
> * emacs-24 branch --> 30 min. 42 sec.
> * trunk --> 29 min. 41 sec.
>
> C:\emacs>mingw32-make --version
> GNU Make 3.82.90
>
> C:\emacs>gcc --version
> gcc (GCC) 4.7.2
>
>
> I don't know if I'm doing something wrong, because these times seem too large.

Several months passed since the last time I tried, but never found a
port of `make' to MS Windows with a working -j feature.

IIRC -j depends on the presence of certain shared library, if it is
absent -j will be silently ignored.