[Help-smalltalk] Re: [GNU Smalltalk task] GST Compiling is Too Slow

[Paolo Bonzini]

> (On Windows)
> ./configure: ~33 minutes
> make: ~27 minutes until giving an error, it takes usually more than
> configuring so the total compilation will take over 1 hour.

No, it shouldn't become much slower than that.  In particular the latest
versions of Autoconf should speed up configure by 30% or more.

Regarding make, you can try "./configure --disable-shared".  It might
speed up make by again 30% or more.

> I don't know if it is possible but is there a way to put an alert sound
> when "./configure" or "make" is done, so that I can understand when the
> process is done while concentrated on some other stuff? Maybe an
> --alert-when-done flag or something?

./configure && make; echo $'\b'

or something like that.

Paolo