extract once and build many?

[Denise H. G.]

RW <rwmaillists at googlemail.com> writes:

> 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.

thanks! actually it does not matter too much for me. I just wonder if
there is something to do about the ports system.


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