Re: lang/rust is super slow to build

On 2022-12-14 2:20 AM, Mel Pilgrim wrote:
> On 2022-12-13 14:18, Xin LI wrote:
>> IMHO the ports collection should provide and use prebuilt packages of 
>> compilers (LLVM, GCC, Rust, etc.) built from the FreeBSD packages 
>> builder, and ports framework (possibly also the base system) should be 
>> changed to use prebuilt packages by default, unless a) user requested 
>> to build everything from source, or b) no binary package is available 
>> for the platform combination, like a Tier-2 platform.  The source 
>> ports for compilers should have all optimizations (like PGO, LTO, 
>> etc.) enabled by default, and require reasonably modern (perhaps newer 
>> than Sandy Bridge) processor features by default.
> 
> It has this ability.  If you set PACKAGE_FETCH_BLACKLIST, it will never 
> download pkgs for the pkgname globs listed.  If you set 
> PACKAGE_FETCH_WHITELIST, it will download pkgs for only those pkgname 
> globs listed.  The suggested value in poudriere.conf is even "gcc* rust 
> llvm*".

No it doesn't.  This is almost useless for those who tracks main (they 
may be useful for those who are using quarterly branch, where toolchain 
ports are updated way less frequently) today.

We need a more systematic solution to this, for example the toolchain 
packages should get highest priority at build cluster and once they 
(plus dependencies) are built, they are being delivered to the official 
pkg site immediately instead of waiting for the compiler to finish 
building everything else, then delivered to the package site.

Cheers,