On Wed, Jan 08, 2025 at 12:24:48PM +0000, Stuart Henderson wrote:
> On 2025/01/08 12:55, Theo Buehler wrote:
> > 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).
> > >
> >
>
> pkgconf isn't the answer, tines when running --cflags protobuf:
The one in ports is super old. With the master branch:
$ time ./pkg-config --cflags protobuf >/dev/null
0m00.01s real 0m00.02s user 0m00.00s system
$ time pkg-config --cflags protobuf >/dev/null
0m08.36s real 0m08.27s user 0m00.12s system
