On Sun, Dec 14, 2003 at 12:46:27PM +0000, Roger Leigh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > MSYS does not depend on cygwin, BTW. It's entirely standalone.
Why do you claim this if a few simple checks could have convinced you otherwise? At least the shell, which is just bash, is linked against the cygwin lib.... This makes sense, too, because why would you want to duplicate work for no apperent gain? Anyways, forking speed is not the full story, as bash and gcc usually take advantage of the spawn functions, which don't incur the overhead of fork. Of course, what's quite sure is that it's dog-slow, no matter what, and there is no workaround in sight, unless somebody radically changes the design of configure. -- -----==- | ----==-- _ | ---==---(_)__ __ ____ __ Marc Lehmann +-- --==---/ / _ \/ // /\ \/ / [EMAIL PROTECTED] |e| -=====/_/_//_/\_,_/ /_/\_\ XX11-RIPE --+ The choice of a GNU generation | | _______________________________________________ Gimp-developer mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer