From: gwzhao AT multiwave DOT com DOT sg (Gorton Zhao Guo Wei) Subject: RE: EGCS Win32 gcc compiler wanted 24 Apr 1998 15:08:49 -0700 Message-ID: <01BD6F76.EC9DCAB0.cygnus.gnu-win32@GWZHAO> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit To: "'Mumit Khan'" , Gorton Zhao Guo Wei Cc: "gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com" Mumit, Yes, I am using the FAT file system on NT, but the problem does not seem to be that you mentioned below. To me, it seems to be a problem with tar utility. I used the following command to unpack and tar this egcs-1.0.2_tar.gz file. It took me more than 20 hours to do this but still could not finish it. tar -xvfz egcs-1.0.2_tar.gz. To fix this problem is easy, just separate this to two steps as follow. gzip -d -xvfz egcs-1.0.2_tar.gz. tar -xvf egcs-1.0.2.tar Thanks, Gorton -----Original Message----- From: Mumit Khan [SMTP:khan AT xraylith DOT wisc DOT edu] Sent: Friday, April 24, 1998 1:51 AM To: Gorton Zhao Guo Wei Cc: gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com Subject: Re: EGCS Win32 gcc compiler wanted gwzhao AT multiwave DOT com DOT sg (Gorton Zhao Guo Wei) writes: > I installed the b19.1 to my Pentium 133/32M ram PC together with NT 4.0 (work > station). I tried to tar (decompress) the EGCS 1.0.2 file (9.5M bytes in size > ). It took me whole night (about 15 hours) to do this, but it still has not b > een finished yet. The CPU usage almost stays 100%. It must be something wrong > ly. Normally, it only took a few minuts to compress a 20M bytes file if used > a Winzip on the same computer. I guess that I have to turn on or to set some > flags to this gnu-win32. Does anyone know how to speed up this gnu-win32? Bet you're using FAT filesystem on NT, right? If so, you're running into the same old "EA SF" slowdown problem which IMO renders cygwin32 b19.x useless for any real work. I believe Geoffrey has stated that he will provide an option to not use extended attributes on NT/FAT, but I haven't been keeping up with snapshots to know if it's already happened or not. If you're not using FAT on NT, I can't even guess as to the cause of this problem. Mumit - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request AT cygnus DOT com" with one line of text: "help".