Re: Mingw task for Cirrus CI

Hi,

On 2022-04-08 19:27:58 -0500, Justin Pryzby wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 07, 2022 at 10:10:21AM -0700, Andres Freund wrote:
> > On 2022-04-06 11:03:37 -0400, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
> > > On 3/30/22 20:26, Andres Freund wrote:
> > > > Could you try using dash to invoke configure here, and whether it makes configure faster?
> > > I got weird failures re libxml/parser.h when I tried with dash. See
> > > <https://cirrus-ci.com/task/5963254039052288> (It would be nice if we
> > > could see config.log on failure.)
> >
> > Since dash won't help us to get the build time down sufficiently, and the
> > tests don't pass without a separate build tree, I looked at what makes
> > config/prep_buildtree so slow.
> >
> > It's largely just bad code. The slowest part are spawning one expr and mkdir
> > -p for each directory. One 'cmp' for each makefile doesn't help either.
> >
> > The expr can be replaced with
> > subdir=${item#$sourcetree}
> > that's afaics posix syntax ([1]), not bash.
> >
> > Spawning one mkdir for each directory can be replaced by a single mkdir
> > invocation with all the directories. On my linux workstation that gets the
> > time for the first loop down from 1005ms to 38ms, really.
>
> Even better?
>
> (cd "$sourcetree" && find . -print |grep -E '/Makefile$|/GNUmakefile$' |grep -v "$sourcetree/doc/src/sgml/images/" |xargs tar c) |
> (cd "$buildtree" && tar x)

Don't think we depend on tar for building, at the moment. But yes, it'd be
faster... Tar is certainly a smaller dependency than perl, not sure if there's
any relevant platform without it?

Greetings,

Andres Freund