> Recently I noticed that `cygport finish` has become really slow on some of my > package source trees. After I run for example > > cygport libargp.cygport finish > > it waits for about 5 minutes without any message to the console, before the > first "Removing work directory" message appears. > > pstree shows that during this time cygport is waiting for chattr. In > /usr/bin/cygport I see: > > if [ $OSTYPE = "cygwin" ] > then > chattr -fR +C ${workdir} >/dev/null 2>&1 || true > fi > > which is trying to make the workdir case-sensitive. > > Whatever the advantages of that are, it can take a long time. Would it be > possible to skip it at least in the case of "finish"? It seems silly to spend > all that time fixing up a directory tree that we then turn around and remove > with rm -rf.
And/or, maybe add a switch to suppress it. I've commented it out of my /usr/bin/cygport for now, because it makes me wait an extra 5 minutes before every cygport command, at least on this particular source tree with 12K files in it.