Date: Wed, 30 Jun 1999 04:50:02 -0700 (PDT) From: Mikhail Teterin <mi@aldan.algebra.com> To: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: ports/12457: lots of bsd.port.mk code executed needlessly Message-ID: <199906301150.EAA32261@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR ports/12457; it has been noted by GNATS.
From: Mikhail Teterin <mi@aldan.algebra.com>
To: Tim Vanderhoek <vanderh@ecf.utoronto.ca>
Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: ports/12457: lots of bsd.port.mk code executed needlessly
Date: Wed, 30 Jun 1999 07:44:49 -0400 (EDT)
Tim Vanderhoek once wrote:
[...]
> Actually, there's a very strong possibility that using dependencies
> more would make it slower, not faster.
If that's true, make(1) is not the tool for the job, is it? It currently
is used mostly as an awkward script interpreter...
> > -.if defined(MLINKS)
> > +.if make(compress-man) && defined(MLINKS)
> > __pmlinks!= ${ECHO} '${MLINKS:S/ / /}' | ${AWK} \
> > @@ -1128,3 +1128,3 @@
>
> Your patch breaks if you use dependencies more, as you just suggested
> a couple paragraphs ago. There's also a problem that is sufficiently
> glaringly obvious as to show that you haven't tested this much... :-)
That's true. It was more like a "pseudo-code".
> Look, sorry for being terse, but it's almost 1:00am right now. Before
> running off and filing a bug-report, I'm going to suggest that next
> time you wait just a little while, especially given the first line I
> wrote...
I insist the bug-report is totally justified. As it is now, it
takes my PentiumII-333MHz with 128Mb of RAM 25-35 seconds (!!)
to finish processing bsd.port.mk in the tcl81 directory and start
fetching/extracting/... Yours,
-mi
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