Re: Building cvs emacs on a dual-core machine

[Eric Lilja]

Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > From: Eric Lilja [snip raw email address quote]
> > Date: Sat, 23 Dec 2006 12:24:21 +0100
> >
> > Another rebuild: Without jobs, ~11 minutes
>
> Same here.  I get between 11 and 13 minutes, depending on whether I
> use "-j 2" or not.  This is a single-core system with a 3-GHz
> hyper-threaded CPU.
>
> > With jobs: Will not complete. :-(
>
> Please show me the error messages which prevented it from finishing.

Sorry for the delay, but I have been gone for most of the holidays. Hope 
you notice my update to this old thread (easy to miss if you use gmane 
like me).

Anyway, I just performed a full checkout and was able to build emacs 
using the following script:

#!/bin/bash
export CVS_RSH="ssh"
touch ~/.cvspass
cvs -z3 -d:pserver:address@hidden:/sources/emacs co emacs
rm ~/.cvspass
cd emacs/nt/
./configure.bat --with-gcc --no-cygwin --no-debug
time mingw32-make bootstrap --jobs=2 XMFLAGS="--jobs=2"
mingw32-make install

Same system as before. So with the changes you made I can now perform a 
full bootstrap when specifying the jobs parameter. :-) I didn't try to 
build without specifying jobs, but I'm sure it works if this script 
works (and it does). Thanks for fixing this! As you mentioned, 
specifying jobs provide no real benefit under windows at the moment but 
it still feels good that this has been fixed.

- Eric