Re: --create-testdir eats CPU and does nothing

[Tim Rühsen]

On Samstag, 5. August 2017 18:34:58 CEST Bruno Haible wrote:
> Tim Rühsen wrote:
> > > $ ./gnulib-tool --create-testdir --dir=../testdir1
> > > gnulib-tool: warning: module euidaccess depends on a module with an
> > > incompatible license: group-member
> > 
> > Correction, it came back after ~20 minutes.
> 
> You have a fast machine.
> 
> > Is there any chance to parallelize the work of ./gnulib-tool ? The machine
> > was just 6-7% idle.
> 
> Not parallelize. But rewrite in a decent programming language. IMO the way
> to go would be to merge Dmitry Selyutin's rewrite
>   https://github.com/ghostmansd/gnulib-python
> into gnulib.

But I guess there is a good reason for not doing it !? It dates 2012.

check-copyright seems to be a good candidate for parallelizing. I tested that 
with the 'parallel' tool (with some modifications of course).

A speedup only when certain tools / shell are/is available would be fine, IMO.

But that's just a random idea, I am absolutely not enough into gnulib nor 
shell programming.

Regards, Tim

signature.asc
Description: This is a digitally signed message part.