Re: pkgsrc scanning performance benchmarks

[Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%bec.de@localhost>]

On Fri, Dec 02, 2016 at 09:00:54AM -0600, John Marino wrote:
> On 12/2/2016 08:54, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:
> > On Fri, Dec 02, 2016 at 08:41:33AM -0600, John Marino wrote:
> > > as an aside, I'm highly suspicious when I see PKG_INFO invoked just with a
> > > scan.  I have a feeling most uses can be challenged, but I haven't even
> > > begun the scratch the surface on any of this.
> > 
> > As I said, e.g. for gtk2, the x11 option affects the downwards
> > depedendency tree. The pkg_info call tries to extract the current
> > option, it doesn't distingiush between bulk build and manual invocation.
> > 
> 
> That's basically my point.  I think that's a logic flaw.
> For PKG_INFO to work against a dependency, the assumption is that dependency
> is already installed.   The makefile should be designed with the baseline
> that nothing is installed.

If it is not already installed, it extracts the current setting. That's
a good chunk of the "make" invocations seen.

Joerg