[plt-scheme] speeding up building from source

[Filipe Cabecinhas]

Hi

On 6 May, 2008, at 00:32, Stephen De Gabrielle wrote:

> Does anyone have any  suggestions for speeding up building from  
> source?
>
> I'm using a slow/resource constrained machine,


One thing you could do is skip the documentation, which takes quite a  
while.

In windows you would change the last line of build.bat to
..\..\mzscheme -l setup -- -D -n

in unix you would change the SETUP_ARGS variable in the makefile to:
SETUP_ARGS = -X "$(DESTDIR)$(collectsdir)" -l setup -- -D -n

(if you do it in makefile.in before issuing ./configure it's better  
because the makefile is generated from it)
on unix you can also disable stuff you don't need when running  
configure with --disable-<something> (use ./configure --help to see  
what can be disabled).


   - Filipe Cabecinhas