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From: Chris Faylor <cgf AT cygnus DOT com>
Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2000 19:48:12 -0400
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Subject: Re: gmake is slow under cygwin
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In-Reply-To: <50028CAE26D1D3118C7F00A0CC50D6256A922B@EMWARESERVER>; from scarter@emware.com on Tue, Sep 26, 2000 at 01:57:40PM -0600

On Tue, Sep 26, 2000 at 01:57:40PM -0600, Scott Carter wrote:
>I haven't had this problem in my makefiles, but yesterday I happened to be
>trying out a makefile that someone else sent me, and I experienced a *huge*
>delay. I haven't tried to analyze it, but I did observe this. When the VPATH
>is set to any of the following (which, by the way, don't work correctly in
>the test makefile) 
>
>VPATH = c:/temp/test/source
>VPATH = /cygdrive/c/temp/test/source
>VPATH = //c/temp/test/source
>
>There is no long delay. When VPATH is set to this (which is incorrect)
>
>VPATH = //cygdrive/c/temp/test/source

Hmm.  I can see why that would cause a huge delay.  This is a very good
point.  Thanks for bringing it up.

I can easily see someone translating //c to //cygdrive/c and seeing the
delay the you describe.

cgf

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