On Feb 14, 2011, at 20:14, Min Sik Kim wrote: > On Feb 14, 2011, at 8:35 AM, Dieter Baron wrote: >>>> I'm currently running a pbulk build on Mac OS X 10.6.6, and teTeX-bin has >>>> already spent 11.5h (!) in the depends phase, and it's still not finished: >> >> Watching the output and some sed revield an interesting inefficiency: >> >> /var/pkg/lib/texmf/web2c/luatex/luatex.fmt and >> /var/pkg/lib/texmf/web2c/luatex/dviluatex.fmt were both rebuilt 2647 times, >> pdftex/pdftex.fmt, pdeftex/pdfetex.fmt and pdftex/etex.fmt were rebuilt 1008 >> times each. > > What does your etc/texmf/web2c/fmtutil.cnf have? It's attached. I haven't modified it. (This is from in the middle from a reinstall of the hyphen packages for yet another package that depends on teTeXbin.) >> /var/pkg/lib/texmf/ls-R contained these files quite often. Some part of the >> install script seems to mess this up. > > This is strange. The install script does not modify ls-R directly; it only > calls mktexlsr to rebuild it. > >> I've recreated that file (ls -R > ls-R) and we're down to about 3 minutes >> per hyphen package. (Still rather long for installing a few files, so this >> begs further cleanup!) > > It is not just installing a few files. Whenever hyphenation patterns are > modified, all the installed formats must be rebuilt. Perhaps, but once for each of the 32 packages? That sounds wasteful. Like I said, even with a fixed ls-R, it takes 3 minutes for each, or 1.5 hours for all of them. On a modern machine, at that. yours, dillo
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