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and subject line Bug#1108845: fixed in pkgconf 2.5.1-2
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regarding pkgconf is unusably slow
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Package: pkgconf
Version: 1.8.1-4
Severity: important
Tags: patch
% time pkgconf --cflags --libs re2 > /dev/null
real 0m2,902s
user 0m2,884s
sys 0m0,008s
re2 uses libabsl which is quite a monster, yet it only has some 100
.pc files. Processing them shouldn't take nearly as long.
This problem is known:
https://github.com/pkgconf/pkgconf/issues/229
I can confirm what's written there. Like the OP there, a complete
build of my software (which just uses re2 in one place) would take
way over an hour (I had to abort it halfway), more than 20 times as
long as the actual compilation (which is mostly C++ with
optimizations -- not exactly known for being fast, either).
Sorry, that's just ridiculous!
The version in Bookworm probably has the same problem, but only in
Trixie there's a version of re2 which uses libabsl, so the problem
becomes more urgent.
As described there, upgrading to 1.9.0 fixes the problem. I tested
this:
% time pkgconf-1.9.0 --cflags --libs re2 > /dev/null
real 0m0,019s
user 0m0,015s
sys 0m0,004s
There are newer versions than 1.9.0 which should also fix the
problem, but if you don't want to change too much so at this point,
upgrading to 1.9.0 seems the safest option.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 13.0
APT prefers testing-security
APT policy: (500, 'testing-security'), (500, 'testing-debug'), (500,
'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 6.1.0-35-amd64 (SMP w/24 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_WARN
Locale: LANG=de_DE, LC_CTYPE=de_DE (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL set to
de_DE.UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled
Versions of packages pkgconf depends on:
ii pkgconf-bin 1.8.1-4
pkgconf recommends no packages.
pkgconf suggests no packages.
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--- Begin Message ---
Source: pkgconf
Source-Version: 2.5.1-2
Done: Andrej Shadura <[email protected]>
We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
pkgconf, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive.
A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.
Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed. If you
have further comments please address them to [email protected],
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.
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Andrej Shadura <[email protected]> (supplier of updated pkgconf package)
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Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2026 14:13:45 +0100
Source: pkgconf
Architecture: source
Version: 2.5.1-2
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: medium
Maintainer: Andrej Shadura <[email protected]>
Changed-By: Andrej Shadura <[email protected]>
Closes: 1068379 1068426 1108845
Changes:
pkgconf (2.5.1-2) unstable; urgency=medium
.
* Upload to unstable (Closes: #1108845, #1068379, #1068426).
.
pkgconf (2.5.1-1) experimental; urgency=medium
.
* New upstream release.
* Add new bomtool package.
* Aadd myself to Uploaders.
* Bump the soname libpkgconf3 -> libpkgconf7.
* debian/copyright: Fix typo in upstream contact.
* Drop upstreamed patches.
* Drop old trigger, unneeded after trixie.
* debian/watch: Update host name.
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