Re: Extracting versions from pkgsrc tree taking hours - how to address?

To: David Brownlee <abs%absd.org@localhost>
Subject: Re: Extracting versions from pkgsrc tree taking hours - how to address?
From: Martin Husemann <martin%duskware.de@localhost>
Date: Sun, 9 Sep 2012 20:57:51 +0200

On Sun, Sep 09, 2012 at 07:46:51PM +0100, David Brownlee wrote:
> The canonical way to do this is to run "make show-var
> VARNAME=PKGNAME", which for a sample package on my Thinkpad T500
> (pkgtools/lintpkgsrc) takes around 0.65 seconds.

Completely off topic, but: this alone is a very, very serious and longstanding
bug. IMHO pkgsrc makefiles, acompanying *.mk files and (if needed) make(1)
should be fixed.

Martin

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- Extracting versions from pkgsrc tree taking hours - how to address?
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