On Wed, Jan 08, 2025 at 12:50:31PM +0100, Theo Buehler wrote: > > Not sure what pkg-config is doing, but it should not take minutes to > > figure out what cflags protobuf needs? > > It's a known issue. The reason is that abseil-cpp ships 100000 libraries > with .pc files and parsing those takes an inordinate amount of time. > Some improvements to the NIH pkg-config were made, but it's still not > good enough. IMO it's just cutting it anymore. Unfortunately, attempts
this should have read "It's just not cutting it anymore." > at using devel/pkgconf as a drop-in replacement failed so far (lang/rust > doesn't build with it for one thing). >