MacPorts AutoBuild

[Bryan Blackburn]

On Jun 20, 2008, at 11:10 AM, Daniel J. Luke wrote:

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> I don't know if you have plans for future development, but I was  
> thinking the following would be good:
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> - Add a way to add more macports.conf settings (enabling parallel  
> builds perhaps)

Currently, I simply punt on this issue, since it'd be tough to figure  
out what settings for various macports.conf values would be best for a  
given use.  You can use './mpab mount' to mount the chroot and 'vi  
mpchroot/opt/local/etc/macports/macports.conf' to change whatever you  
need.

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> - Use archive mode or activate/inactivate to speed things up for  
> ports with lots of dependencies (unless I'm missing something, I  
> think that ports end up getting rebuilt multiple times as  
> dependencies since everything gets uninstalled between port builds)

As you noticed, it does use archive mode, but since it uninstalls all  
installed ports after each port-build attempt, you'll see it reinstall  
popular dependencies (eg, pkgconfig, zlib, etc) quite a bit.  This way  
it should catch ports that have missed necessary deps.  Fortunately  
with archive mode it only has to reinstall the files, but if you're on  
a slower disk, some ports with 20+ deps can still take a while to do  
these; especially larger ports with lots of files, like ncursesw with  
over 3000 files alone, seriously IO bound.

Bryan


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