Re: lang/rust is super slow to build

Am Tue, Dec 13, 2022 at 07:55:11AM -0800 schrieb Mel Pilgrim:

Hi Mel,

> On 2022-12-12 11:27, Pat Maddox wrote:
> > Using poudriere, lang/rust is at 2 hours and counting on my 10-core i9
> > w/ 128 gigs of RAM.
> > 
> > Does that sound right? It seems extremely slow to me, but this is my
> > first time building it.
> 
> That sounds typical.  You can use ccache and tmpfs to speed it up a little
> bit, but both rust and llvm are computationally massive.

I really have no idea why the software is so bulky nowadays.

> Even worse, poudriere doesn't need to build it.  If you aren't changing its
> options there's no functional difference between building it locally and
> installing from the public pkg repo.  Poudriere does have the ability to
> install from pkgs, but there is a 2-year-old bug that prevents that feature
> from working correctly.

The developmenmt version poudriere-devel has got the feature to
download the packages specified in some configuration file.
Disclaimer: I have not used it because I can like with the packaged
software.
#
> I recommend everyone comment on issue #822 on the freebsd/poudriere
> github[1] and explain how much of a pain it is that poudriere doesn't have
> sane behaviour wrt dependencies.  Maybe if enough people comment it will
> spur a fix.
> 
> 1: https://github.com/freebsd/poudriere/issues/822

Kind regards,
Christoph

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