extract once and build many?

[RW]

On Fri, 02 Jan 2009 02:18:57 +0800
darcsis at gmail.com (Denise H. G.) wrote:


>    I noticed that some ports, e.g. qt-4 stuff, just use the same
> source ball but extract it each time for their own build. Is there
> some method to reuse the extracted sources? I think it is perhaps a
> waste of cpu and time to extract the same source ball for different
> build tasks.

The time taken by extraction is usually negligible. And don't forget
that many ports patch the source after extraction, so reusing would
require an additional clean copy for each port.