Re: I wish I had a make target that...

[David Holland <dholland-pkgtech%netbsd.org@localhost>]

On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 03:02:10PM +0700, Robert Elz wrote:
 > It would be nice to find a solution to this before the problem grows even
 > worse - either make pkg_chk faster, or change the rules for pkgsrc Makefile
 > setting of the pkgname (from which the version is obtained) to be much
 > simpler than what is allowed now, so that pkg_chk will be able to cope.

I have long-term plans for getting make to go faster, but don't hold
your breath; it requires rewriting about 80% of the internals so it
parses to an intermediate form; this will make it probably 2-3x faster
up front (by avoiding repeated rescanning of strings) and also allow
teaching it some optimizations.

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David A. Holland
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