Re: Building Emacs for Win64 on Appveyor

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Rory Yorke <address@hidden>
> Date: Sun, 21 Feb 2016 17:12:21 +0200
> 
>   3) I initially tried "make -j2" (the VM only provides one core, but my
>      understanding is that even then -j2 can provide a speed advantage),
>      but the build froze after building emacs-lisp/cursor-sensor.elc.
>      Non-parallel builds do work.

FWIW, I routinely use "make -j6" and "make -j8", and it works OK.  So
this is either a VM problem, or a problem with the MSYS2 Make port you
were using.

> The build takes about 36 min, and the installation and packaging another
> 13 minutes, for a total of 49 minutes; the build time-limit is one hour.

A "make -j8" build normally takes about 4 min (longer if optimizations
are disabled).

Thanks.