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Date:	Sat, 10 Mar 2001 00:23:41 -0500
From:	Christopher Faylor <cgf AT redhat DOT com>
To:	cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject:	Eliminate make's search for sh.exe under Cygwin?
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Recent posts in the cygwin mailing list have pointed to the fact that
make is pretty slow and have mentioned that make takes some time
searching for sh.exe.

I'm not sure why make, running under Cygwin, goes out of its way to
search for sh.exe on the PATH.  Maybe this is a holdover from the times
when there wasn't necessarily a /bin in the Cygwin distributions.  It's
possible that Red Hat may even distribute things that way -- but I can
take care of that.

I am thinking that we can probably rip out most of the logic currently
in make for finding a shell in the path and just let it use /bin/sh when
MAKE_MODE=unix or find command.com/cmd.exe when MAKE_MODE=win32.

Does this sound like a good plan?  Am I missing something?  Will having
make operate more like UNIX cause some problem that I'm not aware of?

cgf

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