Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sources.redhat.com Date: Sat, 10 Mar 2001 15:17:28 -0500 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Eliminate make's search for sh.exe under Cygwin? Message-ID: <20010310151728.J975@redhat.com> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <20010310002341.A10357@redhat.com> <3AAA45B1.169DD8E5@yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.11i In-Reply-To: <3AAA45B1.169DD8E5@yahoo.com>; from earnie_boyd@yahoo.com on Sat, Mar 10, 2001 at 10:18:09AM -0500 On Sat, Mar 10, 2001 at 10:18:09AM -0500, Earnie Boyd wrote: >Christopher Faylor wrote: >> >> 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? >> > >Hmm... I seem to recall that make goes through lots of extra logic when >WIN32 is defined so perhaps the removal of that definition alone will >help. (I haven't looked recently.) Perhaps you should ask the "cause >some problem" question internally at sources.redhat? If by "sources.redhat" you mean just Red Hat, that's what I meant by the "but I can take care of that" above. cgf -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Check out: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple