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To: manus AT eiffel DOT com
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Subject: Re: C compilation slow on NT 
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 29 Oct 1999 09:15:51 PDT."
             <NBBBLJDKHPIDCALEEHBCEEMODDAA DOT manus AT eiffel DOT com> 
Date: Fri, 29 Oct 1999 12:04:22 -0500
From: Mumit Khan <khan AT thor DOT xraylith DOT wisc DOT edu>

"Emmanuel STAPF" <manus AT eiffel DOT com> writes:
> Sorry to bother you guys. I read  a thread not too long ago about the poor
> performance of gcc on Windows NT. I was trying to find the solution given in
> the mailing list archive, but it is not easy due to the poor search
> possibilities offered by the web page.
> 
> Can someone send me what has to be modified so that gcc does not do lookup
> on the network? Thanks in advance.
> 
> Otherwise, I notice that make was slow too. Any idea?
> 

The trick is to make sure that network drives are not in your PATH, and also
that you have HOME defined correctly and it's not '/'. On NT, these could be 
in the registry and can stay hidden.

The trouble with HOME is the following: let's say you HOME=/ defined
in the environment. Some of the tools, eg. gdb, tries to find startup files
in $HOME/<startupfile>, and some of these append an extra '/' and so it
expands to '//<startupfile>' and that's a UNC path. Takes a while before
it times out.

Regards,
Mumit


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