understanding errorlogs on pointyhat

[Mark Linimon]

On Mon, 13 Dec 2004, Serge Gagnon wrote:

> I just want to know, finally, why the error log doesn't disappear from
> pointyhat (not portsmon) when the port is fixed ?

It can take several days for a build run to complete on pointyhat.
There are only N processors to farm the work out to, and 12K ports
to build, some of which (OpenOffice, some of the scientific ones)
are immense.  The current algorithm is naive: it just builds
everything in the Ports Collection.

For the build farm machines that run -current, add whatever time
-current is broken (including the build chain) to that "several
days" figure :-)

mcl