Re: pkg/55651: avoid autogen by all means

[Tobias Nygren <tnn%NetBSD.org@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR pkg/55651; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Tobias Nygren <tnn%NetBSD.org@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost
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Subject: Re: pkg/55651: avoid autogen by all means
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 2020 10:02:27 +0200

 > I have been told there are chances it is not just looping but will complete
 > after a few more hours.
 
 This takes ~20 minutes even on a high end amd64 machine.
 
 > This is just plain stupid and should be avoided. Can we get rid of autgen?
 
 FWIW I just tried to pkg_delete the autogen package and commented out the dependency and the package seemed to build fine.