I used x86_64 GNU/Linux, NixOS, cargo 1.78.0-nightly (ccc84ccec 2024-02-07).
When deleting the target directory and running `cargo build`, all the dependency crates build pretty fast. But then the build script takes ages. And somehow runs twice.
In the target/debug/build dir are 2 different build-script-build executables, that produce the same outputs (compressed_syntaxes/theme).
I thought it might be related to the `cargo:rerun-if-changed` stuff in the build.rs but it's the same with those lines commented out.
sidju|2 years ago
There is a bit of a gotcha that if you build a debug build the build script will be less optimized. This makes a debug build take nearly 4 minutes total on my computer due to how much processing is done in the build script. A release build only takes roughly 2 minutes total due to the optimized build script.
(The "cargo:rerun-if-changed" tells cargo under which circumstances it is necessary to rerun the build script. It doesn't change its behavior on a fresh build.)
Please check if it really does run twice, and thus changes process ID and command line. (I run `top`, press shift+v for process tree, c for command line and go look at the cargo process to find the build-script run.)