advanced bash-ing for long compiles

[Joshua Root]

On 2016-10-15 01:50 , Ken Cunningham wrote:
>
> I notice mdworker seems to go nuts during these long builds, often appearing to soak up lots of cycles. I assume it’s trying to index all the build files, etc
>
> is it easy to sleep that function and then re-enable it after the compile is done?

Not sure why this would be, since we set the hidden flag on 
${prefix}/var/macports (technically $portdbpath) which should exclude it 
from Spotlight indexing. Maybe that doesn't work on 10.6? You could try 
adding it to the Privacy list in the Spotlight settings manually.

- Josh