On Thu, 2005-06-23 at 22:59 +0200, Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote:
> David Bobroff wrote:
> > I've tried a few times recently to build the web-docs from CVS. I've
> > noticed that the build time for LilyPond itself seems to be much shorter
> > than it used to be. On the other hand, the build time for the web-docs
> > seems extremely long. I tried building the web-docs (after successfully
> > building LilyPond) from CVS ChangeLog 1.3812 ('release commit') and it
> > happily chugged away apparently building the website. After it had been
> > doing this for over 7 hours I went to bed. When I got up this morning I
> > saw this in the console:
>
> Can you give me a tiny bit more of the output? It will probably say
> "Failed files: <foo.ly>" somewhere.
Ok, but I'll have to run 'make web' again. I suspect it will take many
hours to get there again but I'll likely be able to send something in
the morning.
>
> > While it was working I saw that it would take a lot of time at the
> > points where it was converting to PNG. I didn't actually time any of
> > these events but it was on the order of minutes.
>
> PNG generation has become a bit slower, because we render at higher
> resolution and then scale down the image. However, this should not make
> that much of a difference.
I *think* I recall that the really slow PNG generation began some ways
into the build. Can't be sure about that, though.
-David
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