On Sun, 5 Jan 2003, Julio Merino wrote:

> On Sun,  5 Jan 2003 15:37:17 +0200 (EET)
> Dan McMahill <dmcmahill@netbsd.org> wrote:
> 
> > Log Message:
> > Switch the top level pkgsrc 'readme' and 'cdrom-readme' targets to use the
> > new and much more efficient code.  Previously a 'make readme' took over
> > 3 weeks on my SS5 and now takes < 3 hours.  The number of make calls has
> > been reduced from somewhere over 1,000,000 to one per package which is
> > around 3,000.  The mk/scripts/mkreadme script does all the work now.  This
> > script has been used in standalone form for a month or two on ftp.netbsd.org
> > and has had no problem.
> 
> Can this be applied to the make index target too?

that is the plan.  It probably will be fairly easy.  I'm hoping to get to
it over the next few days.

-Dan