makepkg very slow on aarch64

[scrouthtv]

Hello everybody,

today I set up a VM using qemu to build some packages. The client is ArchLinuxARM for generic pcs.

Booting and installing packages works fine, although the performance is not that good (e.g. mkinitcpio takes a minute or two).

However, if I actually try to build a package using makepkg, nothing happens at all.
After waiting for literally ten minutes, I get the first message:
$this->bbcode_second_pass_code('', '==> Making package: fakeroot-tcp 1.25.3-2 (Thu Oct 14 06:47:40 2021)')
But it doesn't really get faster after there.

Any idea how I could speed it up?

[solskogen]

You're emulating aarch64. That is quite slow.
It's better to setup a cross compiler on the fast host and use distcc.