svn commit: r418247 - in head/devel/gps: . files

Alexey Dokuchaev danfe at FreeBSD.org
Mon Jul 11 12:23:41 UTC 2016


On Fri, Jul 08, 2016 at 10:28:04PM +0000, John Marino wrote:
> New Revision: 418247
> URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/ports/418247
> 
> Log:
>   devel/gps: Fix compiler error highlight on FreeBSD
>   
>   On DragonFly, GPS has been properly highlighting code errors during
>   compilation, but on FreeBSD nothing happens.  Luckily Rod Kay has been
>   persistent in diagnosing the cause and he finally isolated it to a
>   too-short timeout interval for Expect calls.  The timeout period was
>   set to 1 millisecond, the absolute shortest interval possible.  While
>   Linux and DF could complete the function call during this time, FreeBSD
>   requires at least 10 milliseconds to do the same.

Fascinating.  Did you guys try to understand what makes Linux and DF over a
magnitude faster than FreeBSD?  Is there something that needs to be fixed?
 
./danfe


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