Re: PR41601 devel/glib2 fails to compile on Solaris 10

[Sad Clouds <cryintothebluesky%gmail.com@localhost>]

On Sun, 20 Oct 2019 05:56:38 +0700
Robert Elz <kre%munnari.OZ.AU@localhost> wrote:

>     Date:        Sat, 19 Oct 2019 18:03:50 +0100
>     From:        Sad Clouds <cryintothebluesky%gmail.com@localhost>
>     Message-ID:
> <20191019180350.081583bbd57783bb702d9bb5%googlemail.com@localhost>
> 
> 
>   | Well glib2 uses something weird called mesonbuild. It takes about
>   | 10 minutes just to run "configure" phase. Looked at ptree and it
>   | keeps running "tr" command, no idea what it's trying to translate.
> 
> 	tr -cd \\0 | tr \\0 x
> 
> is what it looks (from your message) to be doing - that is a sh script
> method to test if a file contains any \0 characters (or to count how
> many).
> 
> kre
> 

I take it this is not pkgsrc running it? I assumed this was glib2 build
system, not sure the reason for doing it, but it's a bit daft, as it
is horrendously time consuming.