Re: Slow build times on Mac OS X

[Matthias Scheler <tron%zhadum.org.uk@localhost>]

On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 05:02:30PM -0400, Julio Merino wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 4:59 PM, Matthias Scheler 
> <tron%zhadum.org.uk@localhost> wrote:
> > Unless there are any objection I'll switch Mac OS X (Leopard to
> > start with) to "/bin/ksh" after a reasonable amount of testing.
> 
> How did you do the switch?

sudo zsh
cd /bin
mv sh sh.orig
cp -p ksh sh

> Out of curiosity: have you tried to do a native build of that package,
> out of pkgsrc's control?

No. And it would be hard to make sure it builds exactly the same thing.

> Last time I tried (on a NetBSD host), the overhead of the wrappers
> was significant.

My benchmark results confirm that.

        Kind regards

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Matthias Scheler                                  http://zhadum.org.uk/