Re: [bug #63641] Poor build parallelism in gettext

[Vincent Torri]

hello

On Sun, Feb 12, 2023 at 10:39 AM Sergei Trofimovich
<INVALID.NOREPLY@gnu.org> wrote:
>
> 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.

you can also try another build system. meson (and even faster, muon (a
c99 port of meson)) is a lot faster than autotools.

best regards

Vincent Torri