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From: "Marcus A Martin" <shalidor AT cfl DOT rr DOT com>
To: <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: RE: Gmake is slow under cygwin
Date: Fri, 9 Mar 2001 14:37:41 -0500
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I tried all of the suggestions in the email archives, but they did not help.
Are there any other suggestions?

Marcus

> -----Original Message-----
> From: cygwin-owner AT sources DOT redhat DOT com
> [mailto:cygwin-owner AT sources DOT redhat DOT com]On Behalf Of Larry Hall (RFK
> Partners, Inc)
> Sent: Friday, March 09, 2001 12:50 PM
> To: Marcus A Martin; cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
> Subject: Re: Gmake is slow under cygwin
>
>
> Check out the -x flag on mount.  It's not completely appropriate
> in general
> but it has been noted to speed up performance by avoiding the need to open
> files to check if they are executables.  On NTFS partitions, you can turn
> on ntsec in the CYGWIN environment variable to get the same
> improvement more
> appropriately.  See the user guide and the email archives in the
> last couple
> of months that talk about both of these options, in regard to a
> similar issue
> as a matter of fact.
>
> Larry Hall                              lhall AT rfk DOT com
> RFK Partners, Inc.                      http://www.rfk.com
> 118 Washington Street                   (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office
> Holliston, MA 01746                     (508) 893-9889 - FAX
>
>
>
> At 12:47 PM 3/9/2001, Marcus A Martin wrote:
> >I am writting a build environment for a large progect. We use gmake to
> >compile or code on linux, SGI and windows 2k (via cygwin). While
> the build
> >environment can do all the preprocessing before a build very
> quickly on the
> >unix boxes, it can take up to 2 minutes on a windows box. This
> is a serious
> >diffence.
> >
> >To give you an idea of what might be causing the problem, here
> is what our
> >make system does. When you execute make, it calls a find command
> to find all
> >the files called localdefs.mk. Each localdefs.mk file contains a list of
> >source files, defines the target as a library or an application,
> identifies
> >any exported headers, and then calls a make template. The make template
> >contains the rules on how everything is built. All of the
> localdefs.mk files
> >are processed in memory, then make begins the compilation of any
> file that
> >needs to be built.
> >
> >The initial find takes 2-5 seconds but each localdefs.mk file takes 1-2
> >seconds to process in memory under a cygwin/windows box.  With about 150
> >libraries and applications, the time really adds up. Do you have
> any ideas
> >as to how I can accelerate the windows performance?
> >
> >Thanks for the help,
> >
> >Marcus
> >
> >--------------------------------------------------------------
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> >  always respond to the user in the way that astonishes him least.
> >
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