Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com Message-ID: <20000306202116.24260.qmail@web110.yahoomail.com> Date: Mon, 6 Mar 2000 12:21:16 -0800 (PST) From: Earnie Boyd Reply-To: earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com Subject: Re: Verrry slooowww when PATH is set to 60 directories To: "Guy T. Moore Jr." , cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii --- "Guy T. Moore Jr." wrote: > I am getting extremely slow execution of make.exe when I set my > PATH inside the Makefile to about 4000 characters long (total of 60 different > directories) > inside a Cygwin v1.0 window on WinNT 4.0. > This is known. Keep the path minimal. Directories on networked drives are the slowest. You can modify PATH for cygwin by exporting a modified path from the ~/.bashrc file. This way you can leave the Windows PATH alone. ===== --- Earnie Boyd: __Cygwin: POSIX on Windows__ Cygwin Newbies: __Minimalist GNU for Windows__ Mingw32 List: Mingw Home: __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com