Wednesday, January 08, 2025

Re: devel/pkgconf update

8 янв. 2025 г. 16:22:00 Stuart Henderson <stu@spacehopper.org>:

> Lots of fixes (including overflows, out of bound reads and writes,
> null deref, memory leaks, etc), and notably has a new (as of Aug 2022)
> solver which is significantly faster than the current one:
>
> "There is now a new solver that is designed to provide higher performance
>   with complicated graphs, which works by flattening the dependency graph
>   into a smaller set of dependencies.  This graph can then be evaluated
>   instead of the original dependency graph without having to visit every
>   edge in the graph.
>
>   NOTE: This solver, while providing significant performance improvements,
>   does so, at the cost of changed behavior for some edge cases (such as
>   circular dependencies)."
>
> ok?

OK kn

>
> (aircrack-ng lists a dependency on this for some reason, though it
> doesn't seem to actually use it. anyway, it still builds).

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