On Fri, 27 Jan 2012 20:03:25 -0600 Conrad J. Sabatier wrote: > I've been thinking for a long time that we need a better way to do > "make readmes", one that would be properly integrated into our > ports Mk infrastructure, to take advantage of make's ability to > recognize which files are up-to-date and which really do need > rebuilding.
This wont help and I think there's a better way that will make it up to 700 times faster. When a make readmes is done at the top-level, the top-level and category READMEs are created by make targets and the per port READMEs are created by a perl script in one go from the INDEX-<n> file. I once timed this and the 64 category READMEs took 2 hours, but the ~20,000 port READMEs only took about 9 seconds. Selective updating isn't going to help because 99.9% of the time is spent in the categories and it only takes a single port update to make a category file obsolete. I think the way to speed this up is to have the script generate the category files too. There's no point in bringing in the top-level README since that's already fast. I've been toying with the idea of doing this, but have never got around to it. If anyone wants to have a go I think it would be sensible to write it in awk, since perl is no longer in the base system and the existing perl script isn't really complex enough to be worth hanging-on to. _______________________________________________ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
