Re: abysmal check-portability speed

[Jonathan Perkin <jperkin%mnx.io@localhost>]

* On 2024-09-23 at 15:06 BST, Greg Troxel wrote:

> I am finding that on at least one of my machines,
>
> Building qt5-qtwebengine-5.15.15 it is at
>
> => Checking for portability problems in extracted files
>
> from ps:
>
>  5:23.52 /bin/sh /n0/gdt/pkgsrc-current/pkgsrc/mk/check/check-portability.sh
>
>
> This is a 9th gen i7, and someone told me that check-portability takes
> 1-2s ton their machine.
>
>
> I do have WRKDIR in tmpfs, but tmpfs   seems to behave ok.
>
> I of course have PKG_DEVELOPER set, and a few PKG_OPTIONS, but nothing
> really odd.
>
> As I dig in to checking various machines, etc., I'm just writing to ask
> if anyone else is seeing this.

You might find this patch helps:

  https://github.com/TritonDataCenter/pkgsrc/commit/21aa3cb38903181f291ceb5ccb0245af12fe7a00

Cheers,

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