On Thu, 17 Jul 2003 21:52:17 +0000
Nicholas Ricketts <nightshade@phreaker.net> wrote:

> I am trying to run "make index" in /usr/pkgsrc and it is taking
> forever. I have read some posts that is does indeed take serveral
> hours to complete but the posts were from years ago.
> Does this process still supposed to take several hours. Or has this
> problem been fixed and I'm doing something wrong? Any helpon
> generating the needed inex file would be nice. Thank you.
> 

I just committed some changes which should provide orders of magnitude
improvement in this process.  It now takes 30 minutes or so on a 500 MHz
PC164 (alpha) instead of many days.

-Dan

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