Re: Guile compilation time

[Andy Wingo]

On Sat 28 Nov 2015 13:31, Mikael Djurfeldt <address@hidden> writes:

> Is there an easy way to replace the bootstrap interpreter with an
> already built Guile in order to speed up the build process?

Sadly, no.  You have to bootstrap with the same version of Guile.  See

  https://wingolog.org/archives/2016/01/11/the-half-strap-self-hosting-and-guile

However since Guile 2.1.2, "make dist" effectively does this for you,
including a tree of prebuilt .go files for a variety of endiannesses and
word sizes.  So building from a tarball is not so bad.

Andy