Re: gmake-4.4.1 has a performance regression: at least the science/nwchem project now builds much slower

On Fri 29 Mar 10:28, Yuri wrote:
> GNU Make now handles variable substitutions differently, see the discussion
> here: https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?65533
> This causes it to sometimes fire exponentially more sub-processes than
> before.
> 
> Some other ports that use a lot of variable substitutions in a particular
> way would also be affected, but science/nwchem is acutely affected, to the
> point that it times out.
> 
> 
> I will add devel/gmake43 to remedy this situation.
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> Yuri
> 

From the discussion it clearly sounds like an abuse of gmake, and that upstream
Makefiles should be fixed instead of bringing back gmake43

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