Re: Gub failure

[Phil Holmes]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David Kastrup" <address@hidden>
To: "Werner LEMBERG" <address@hidden>
Cc: <address@hidden>; <address@hidden>
Sent: Sunday, July 24, 2016 5:57 PM
Subject: Re: Gub failure


> Werner LEMBERG <address@hidden> writes:
>
> > > Maybe gub still contains an older version?  Sorry for not having
> > > checked that before committing.
> >
> > Indeed, I now see that only texinfo 4.11 is required.
> >
> > How to proceed?  Reverting is easy (commit
> > 445bf3bb2fbd1f259fe43ade204fb34d68bdd581, the changes in
> > `macros.itexi').  However, I would prefer if we update to a newer
> > version of texinfo.
>
> Texinfo 5 is vastly slower and this might make an impact on Gub times.
> On the other hand, stuff like the improved indexing requires fairly
> recent versions of Texinfo.
>
> --
> David Kastrup


Gub takes such an extraordinary time to build, it probably wouldn't make 
much difference.  On my core i7, quad core, 8 cpu system, a full build from 
scratch takes over a day.  The shortest time I ever get from a good previous 
build is about an hour and a half.  A standard make doc is about 16 minutes.

--
Phil Holmes