[OS X TeX] Emacs compilation time

[Juan Manuel Palacios]

	Hi Bruno! Just recently I read your thread about building emacs and I  
would like to help you out. I recently joined the DarwinPorts team  
after a few years of being a frequent lurker around the dp list,  
catching bugs, writing reports about them, submitting fixes to some  
ports and new ports myself, etc., so they awarded me with the  
"jmpp at opendarwin.org" address (feel free to contact me through it  
whenever you like), thus making me a formal part of the team. However,  
and I'm quite ashamed to say this, you already know how hard it is to  
get a hold of me sometimes and how constrained I'm generally with time  
(physics, computers as a hobby and as a job, sports practically every  
day... you know the drill! I hardly ever post on this list or read it  
anymore, shame...), so I might to be readily available. Many times  
before you've written to me about varied topics and I've left you  
hanging, for which I'm really sorry and I apologize.... :'-(

	In any case, I might be able to at least guide you in the right  
direction, because I've not really built emacs myself. I can still tell  
you, though, 14 hours of compile time is *not*, under any  
circumstances, a reasonable scenario unless you're building something  
like a compiler itself (gcc, ghc, etc), and even then it's still a bit  
exaggerated, so there's surely something at fault (even more if you  
consider, as you accurately pointed out, that emacs +carbon has no  
dependencies what so ever). First of all, I would advise you to use the  
-d flat to port(1) to get the full log of all that's happening, your  
build process could have fallen into a loop and you wont notice it if  
you don't see any output; top(1) would still report CPU usage but that  
means nothing in itself. You can do the following (at this point  
probably as an exercise only, to at least claim victory at one point!):

export PATH="/opt/local/bin:$PATH"  (<-- if you're using bash, I don't  
remember the syntax with tcsh but it goes something to the effect of  
"setenv PATH <something-else> ...")
sudo port -vd clean --all emacs
sudo port -vd install emacs +carbon 2>&1 | tee emacs.out (<-- the  
character right before 'tee' is the vertical bar to pipe from one  
command to the next)
(-v is for verbose output and -d is for verbose and debug output,  
though -d implies -v)

	Those commands will, first, set your $PATH with dp in mind (that will  
help you avoid /usr/local being picked up, but it will not assure it),  
clean everything in dp related to emacs (starting with a clean  
environment is the best) and then attempt a new build, taking every  
single line of output and placing it in the "emacs.out" file, at the  
same time showing them to you on your terminal. Then I would advise you  
to go over to the DarwinPorts mailing list (darwinpors at opendarwin.org),  
it's quite friendly (don't quote me on that! ;-) and it surely has a  
lot of people infinitely more experienced on emacs than me. If you're  
concerned about message size or attachments, the list is quite flexible  
about them, so you can either send the entire log pasted onto your  
message or as an attachment, don't worry about it. You'll surely find  
answers there from dp and emacs knowledgeable people, like the  
maintainer of the emacs dport himself, no less than Jordan Hubbard ;-).  
If you're with sufficient time on your hands (should I answer that  
myself? ;-) you can even join us on the #OpenDarwin channel of the  
Freenode IRC network, where a lot of us hang and lurk practically all  
day long. In order to do this you can install the "irssi" dport and  
then use "irssi -c freenode" and then join the #OpenDarwin channel  
(you'll have to pick up a nick, please excuse my explanations if you're  
familiar with IRC chatting).

	I might not be readily available because I'm gonna be out of town  
tomorrow and then again on Thursday, for the most part of the day on  
both occasions. But in any case if you feel I can guide you further  
don't hesitate to write to my OpenDarwin address or look for me on the  
IRC channel, I hope to not let you down this time ;-)

	After you're done with the process, you should revert your $PATH back  
to what it was. Please tell me how it goes, I'm on Christmas holidays  
now so I should have, at least, some time ;-). I hope to be able to  
garner your interest in DarwinPorts a bit further, as it was pointed  
out in a reply to a message of yours it is really improving and turning  
into a nice and complete software manager (the recent additions are  
great and the next ones to come are gonna be pretty cool too, trust  
me!).

	Well, Bruno, I say by now and hope to see you coming with some white  
smoke! Regards,...


		Juan


PS: One thing I forgot, before you try to build emacs again, I would  
advise you to update your DarwinPorts tree to be sure you have the  
latest port tools and the latest emacs Porfile available (it was  
patched by Jordan a couple of times recently). Updating DarwinPorts  
depends on how you first checked it out. If you did it through CVS (the  
likelihood), you'll have to cd into the darwinports/ directory and then  
use "cvs -q update -dP". If you see anything under the base/ dir as  
being updated (the letter 'U' right next to the file) or patched ('P')  
then cd into it and rebuild the infrastructure with "make distclean &&  
./configure && make && sudo make install && make distclean). Then you  
can cd into dports (cd ../dports) and rebuild the index (by running  
'portindex'), though that's not strictly necessary. Hehe, I hope this  
PS is in time, I hope you didn't already start the build... hehe! Hope  
to talk to you soon, bye!


On Dec 21, 2004, at 9:25 AM, Bruno Voisin wrote:

> A question in case there are emacs people listening here: what's the  
> order-of-magnitude normal compilation time for emacs? It's been about  
> 14 hours that I've launched the compilation of GNU emacs on my  
> PowerBook G4 (1 GHz, 512 MB RAM), using the DarwinPorts infrastructure  
> and the instruction:
>
> 	sudo port install emacs +carbon
>
> which means essentially  
> (<http://darwinports.opendarwin.org/darwinports/dports/editors/emacs/ 
> Portfile>) picking up a CVS GNU emacs and compiling it with options  
> "--with-carbon  
> --enable-carbon-app=${destroot}/Applications/DarwinPorts". I've  
> verified with "top" than things are actually happening, in the  
> beginning "bootstrap" was busy and now I can see that "Rez" has been  
> running for about 5 hours, taking about 80% CPU.
>
> Please be kind, this is practically my first compilation, I cannot  
> pretend to really understand what's happening.
>
> Bruno Voisin

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