Re: Etcupdate runtime has more than doubled....Why?

bob prohaska wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 01, 2026 at 07:14:54PM +0200, Dimitry Andric wrote:
>> On 1 Apr 2026, at 19:13, bob prohaska <fbsd@www.zefox.net> wrote:
>>>
>>> For some time now I've been using etcupdate on a self-hosting
>>> armv7 (RPi2) system. Lately, the runtime for etcupdate after
>>> a world/kernel update from source has seemingly more than doubled.
>>
>> It's unfortunately not an April Fools joke, but I think it's due to the new LLVM_BINUTILS default, which can cause some stuff to get rebuilt during etcupdate. I am unsure if there is any PR or pending fix.
>>
This is exactly it. After emaste@'s commit, LLVM binutils is getting 
built directly in the etcupdate tree because the built artefacts do not 
exist there (but rather in /usr/obj).
> If a workaround emerges is would be very helpful on a Pi2 !
> 
The workaround is to revert a follow-up typo fix and the original commit 
in order:

e8dac3944dca - main - Makefile.inc1: Remove extraneous }
17494c6e6b7d - main - build: Boostrap LLVM_BINUTILS for cross-tools

-- 
Charlie Li
...nope, still don't have an exit line.