Re: Why xml2po runs so slow in top folder of garnome/desktop?

["Joseph E. Sacco, Ph.D." <joseph_sacco comcast net>]

Calvin,

The issue may be which version of xml2po you are using.

xml2po is a python script that is built and installed as part of
gnome-doc-utils. 

When you build from the desktop folder, you are using the search path
set by GARNOME in gar.conf.mk. When you build from the $WORKSRC
directory *without* first establishing a GARNOME environment, you are
using the default search path set by your shell.

On my system, an FC-4 clone for PPC:

        /opt/garnome/bin/xml2po:     VERSION = 0.6.0
        /usr/bin/xml2po:             VERSION - 0.4.3
        

Given the number of time xml2po is called, it would be an interesting
exercise to see if a rewrite in C or C++ would signficantly enhance
performance.

-Joseph

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On Mon, 2006-04-17 at 18:07 +0800, Yu-Hui Calvin Liu wrote:
> Hi, there,
> 
> I tried to build a garnome-2.14.1 on a dual cpu box, with Fedora Core 3. 
> The build process was OK but the speed was quite slow. One problem I met 
> was that for many help files (I guess so), there's a tool xml2po that 
> was used to process them. So there's quite strange problems happened:
> 1) The build process failed several times when doing the xml2po but it 
> could be simply solved by run the "make paranoid-install" once or twice 
> again, no need to make any change at all!
> 2) The xml2po ran so slow in "desktop" folder, the top folder of many 
> modules. But if I go to folder 
> "garnome-2.14.1/desktop/<module>/work/main.d/<module>-<version>" and run 
> "make" in it, it'll be much faster.
> 
> Who can tell me why this happened?
> 
> Thanks.
> Calvin
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