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To: John Whitney <john DOT whitney AT ssmb DOT com>
cc: cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com
Subject: Re: why gcc.exe compilation SLOW on NT? 
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 30 Sep 1999 19:31:51 EDT."
             <37F3F2E7 DOT 80E4A4C5 AT ssmb DOT com> 
Date: Thu, 30 Sep 1999 19:00:57 -0500
From: Mumit Khan <khan AT thor DOT xraylith DOT wisc DOT edu>

John Whitney <john DOT whitney AT ssmb DOT com> writes:
> Hey Folks,
> 
> I didn't expect my "helloworld.c" program to take 10 minutes to compile
> via cygwin's gcc.exe (version egcs-2.91.57) on my NT machine.  The
> compile did complete and the resulting exe does run, but why so long to
> compile?

Check your PATH to make sure there're not network/UNC paths in it. 
Start a bash console window, reset your PATH to the minimum necessary
and see if that fixes the problem. A common problem is when you have
bunch of Novell or NT servers in your PATH and collect2 checks those
to find the subprograms it needs to run, and ends up spending lots of
time waiting on the servers. It's not unique to NT of course -- same
happens with Unix if you're using NFS/AFS/etc.

fyi, when you report these problems, it's always good have to provide
more information, such as the output of `cygcheck -s -r'. Yours is 
certainly an "environment" related problem.

Regards,
Mumit


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