Re: `--with-small-ja-dic`

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Ulrich Mueller <ulm@gentoo.org>
> Cc: luangruo@yahoo.com,  monnier@iro.umontreal.ca,  emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2024 14:11:42 +0100
> 
> >>>>> On Thu, 15 Feb 2024, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> 
> >> I wonder if the option couldn't be replaced by another one like
> >> --without-ja-dic? That would reduce both the installation footprint
> >> and the compile time.
> >> 
> >> Rationale is that Japanese users may prefer the large file, but users
> >> who don't speak Japanese don't need the file at all.
> 
> > How is this different from any other dictionary we produce as part of
> > the build?  E.g., ZIRANMA is also large.
> 
> Other dictionaries don't need a progress report of their long build
> time. :)

There are other files whose build or compilation is slow, for example,
loaddefs.el and ucs-normalize.el.  However, if you build Emacs with
"make -jN", this time is not wasted.