[bug #63641] Poor build parallelism in gettext

[Sergei Trofimovich]

Follow-up Comment #2, bug #63641 (project gettext):

Not to challenge your decision but to add a bit of color on current state:
`gettext` builds 2m11s on my machine.

As it's an early package to build during system bootstrap it's slow build
delays many other packages (with better parallelism) that depend on it.

To put `gettext` slowness in context: the whole of `coreutils` and it's tests
builds 1m13s on my machine. And even `ocaml` (a language compiler with it's
own code generator) takes 1m45s.

I find it hard to believe gettext does as much useful work as these packages
during the build be it time measurement or energy consumption. Or be it
per-core measurement vs whole machine load.


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