From owner-freebsd-ports Wed Feb 20 14:40:37 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from www.smluc.org (smluc.org [206.138.44.17]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id DFE9D37B402 for ; Wed, 20 Feb 2002 14:40:30 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 22624 invoked by uid 1000); 20 Feb 2002 22:40:29 -0000 Date: 20 Feb 2002 22:40:29 -0000 Message-ID: <20020220224029.22623.qmail@www.smluc.org> From: erik@www.smluc.org To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Speeding up bsd.ports.mk Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Mario Sergio Fujikawa Ferreira said: > On Wed, Feb 20, 2002 at 09:04:25PM +0200, Maxim Sobolev wrote: > > Hi folks, > > > > Recently NetBSD team removed all .USE macros from their bsd.pkg.mk > > (see http://mail-index.netbsd.org/tech-pkg/2001/11/08/0001.html) - > > which should make operations (most notably dependency resolution and > > registration) 3 times faster. What do people think about integrating > > those changes into our bsd.port.mk? > > Well, if it both makes it faster and does not break anything. :) > I AM ALL FOR IT. :) has anyone bothered exploring exactly why there was this huge speedup and what about the .USE macro is so slow? it may be possible to improve the performance without changing any of the makefiles, no? Just because someone else did it doesn't necessarily mean it's right, merely worth further investigation :) -Erik [http://math.smsu.edu/~erik] The opinions expressed by me are not necessarily opinions. In all probability, they are random rambling, and to be ignored. Failure to ignore may result in severe boredom or confusion. Shake well before opening. Keep Refrigerated. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message