Speeding up pkg_version and perhaps other port utilities

[Alexander Leidinger]

Quoting Stephen Montgomery-Smith <stephen at math.missouri.edu> (Sat, 19 May 2007 23:48:52 -0500):

> On my system, the program pkg_version can double its speed simply by 
> replacing "make -V PKGNAME" by "make BEFOREPORTMK=yes -V PKGNAME" in 
> src/usr.sbin/pkg_install/version.  Basically what it does is to tell 
> "make" to process only about half of bsd.port.mk.
> 
> It seems to me that with some clever use like this, certain commands 
> like "make all-package-depends" could selectively read only parts of 
> bsd.port.mk.

You have to make sure no dependency is set in the second part of
bsd.port.mk then. I don't know for sure if this is already the case. I
expect that it is not the case.

Bye,
Alexander.

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