From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jan 3 00:22:58 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 79C471065723 for ; Sat, 3 Jan 2009 00:22:58 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from darcsis@gmail.com) Received: from wf-out-1314.google.com (wf-out-1314.google.com [209.85.200.168]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 43F4C8FC1C for ; Sat, 3 Jan 2009 00:22:58 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from darcsis@gmail.com) Received: by wf-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id 24so8917340wfg.7 for ; Fri, 02 Jan 2009 16:22:57 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:x-envelope-to:to:cc:subject :in-reply-to:user-agent:references:from:organization :mail-followup-to:date:message-id:mime-version:content-type; bh=k7Qp5Ejo6jcCdlNeJAlcQirVmBT+aDCPu1J0zvmG24I=; b=J30VEXU5uGY/lqi8fDfVZNOvuWpZRJ0FQGmVl5HdlBjgzraj4PqDgdQ4cig5vwdrTZ NsfubApc8FhIpy35eMoD7KCrWXeSO8dg9OC9KPDX7H3byqYb9kqyG8c7uXJNQQjzWbmk XTs1h3q0MrYr7+u1WUx14hL/pMQZiQnW1g1lw= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=x-envelope-to:to:cc:subject:in-reply-to:user-agent:references:from :organization:mail-followup-to:date:message-id:mime-version :content-type; b=BUfn/PZfDP/pMI5lrWVmAFEpDnonVDsqd1b3LKYRl7beqoXJejV1wnCnk3sfsnsFI0 Rtoy8ws1gc7xfsVDm5JeJdZ7LEKX2yaSiYZpBYrExm9kwAgA35vnBxdP3nfO1d4f1z86 hiTM4SuFcsJ6zJD2h85GhbxaEc5jrbOwy9tXY= Received: by 10.142.242.8 with SMTP id p8mr7521612wfh.307.1230942177762; Fri, 02 Jan 2009 16:22:57 -0800 (PST) Received: from pluton.xbsd.name ([123.117.37.38]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 28sm32600898wfg.8.2009.01.02.16.22.53 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Fri, 02 Jan 2009 16:22:55 -0800 (PST) X-Envelope-To: rwmaillists@googlemail.com To: RW In-Reply-To: <20090101204819.5b362f55@gumby.homeunix.com> (RW's message of "Thu\, 1 Jan 2009 20\:48\:19 +0000") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.3 (berkeley-unix) References: <861vvmlwj2.fsf@pluton.xbsd.name> <20090101204819.5b362f55@gumby.homeunix.com> From: darcsis@gmail.com (Denise H. G.) Organization: Terra Firma Mail-Followup-To: RW , freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Date: Sat, 03 Jan 2009 08:22:47 +0800 Message-ID: <86d4f5w84o.fsf@pluton.xbsd.name> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: extract once and build many? X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 03 Jan 2009 00:22:58 -0000 RW writes: > On Fri, 02 Jan 2009 02:18:57 +0800 > darcsis@gmail.com (Denise H. G.) wrote: > > >> I noticed that some ports, e.g. qt-4 stuff, just use the same >> source ball but extract it each time for their own build. Is there >> some method to reuse the extracted sources? I think it is perhaps a >> waste of cpu and time to extract the same source ball for different >> build tasks. > > The time taken by extraction is usually negligible. And don't forget > that many ports patch the source after extraction, so reusing would > require an additional clean copy for each port. thanks! actually it does not matter too much for me. I just wonder if there is something to do about the ports system. > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > -- darcsis ZAI gmail DIAN com