15 Sep
2017
15 Sep
'17
9:50 p.m.
In the spirit of complaining about compile times :-)
... I like to
build my freebsd ports tree from source. Every time webkit2 needs
an update, my box (which I admit is no longer super-fast, but is
not exactly slow either) takes well over three hours to grind
through it, using all eight cores. (I never timed it, I always
just left it to its own devices after a while.)
Forget ports! /usr/src is bad enough. Running buildworld, it takes
longer to build the flippin' compilers (llvm) than it does to build the
entire rest of the OS. This is not progress.
--lyndon