Re: lang/rust is super slow to build

From: paul macdonald <paul_at_ifdnrg.com>
Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2022 11:36:16 UTC
On 13/12/2022 03:42, paul beard wrote:
>
>
> On Mon, Dec 12, 2022 at 7:38 PM Mark Tinka <mark@tinka.africa> wrote:
>
>
>
>     On 12/12/22 21:27, Pat Maddox wrote:
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>     > Using poudriere, lang/rust is at 2 hours and counting on my
>     10-core i9
>     > w/ 128 gigs of RAM.
>     >
>     > Does that sound right? It seems extremely slow to me, but this
>     is my
>     > first time building it.
>     >
>     > How long does it take others to build? What options are you
>     using, or
>     > any other suggestions for shortening the time?
>
>     I've found the only way to shorten the time is to install the binary
>     package.
>
>     It normally takes a couple of hours to build on my systems when I use
>     the Ports, which I don't mind. I do have some systems that were
>     not well
>     configured for space when they were installed, and building Rust on
>     these consumes all the disk space during the build phase. For
>     these, I
>     just upgrade from binary and I'm done with it. Takes all of 2 minutes.
>
>     Mark.
>
>
> I swapped to binary upgrades for this port…it would fill up swap and 
> die before completing, after hours of work. Never understood why 
> WORKDIR pointed to my small /tmp partition vs my generous /usr 
> filesystem.
>
> -- 
>

I had same issue, and it seems like there's been an llvm/rust/gcc update 
very often

we are now switching to prebuilt for these, but out toolchains are all 
setup for ports so its not a trivial task.

interesting tip re workdir ( although i'd still prefer it not to be 
churning away for hrs)


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