mount -X and FAQ (was RE: Cygwin build system SOOOO SLOOOWWWW ???)

2005-09-15 Thread Williams, Gerald S \(Jerry\)
Christopher Faylor wrote: > I've mentioned this many times before (and suspect that > someone else is frantically typing this in right now) but > mounting directories which contain executable files with > the -X option makes things a little faster for cygwin: > > mount -f -b -X c:/cygwin/bin /bi

RE: Cygwin build system SOOOO SLOOOWWWW ???

2005-09-15 Thread Eric Blake
> we've been struggling with speeding up our build process, too, so I'd > like to share some ideas - yet I'm not so certain whether you'll learn > from me or I'll learn from you: Hopefully both. Thanks for a nice email, with quite a bit of useful and accurate info! > - "strace" - though I haven't

Re: Cygwin build system SOOOO SLOOOWWWW ???

2005-09-15 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Sep 15, 2005 at 04:21:28PM +0200, Jan Schormann wrote: >c) /bin/sh is now bash, which is now dynamically linked. >Up until a few months ago, /bin/sh has been "ash", a smaller, but >less powerfull shell. This has been replaced by bash, to reduce the >traffic of repeated questions along the l

RE: Cygwin build system SOOOO SLOOOWWWW ???

2005-09-15 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Thu, 15 Sep 2005, Jan Schormann wrote: > Let's see ... > > > 1) How can I tell what Cygwin is doing? Is there a tool that will > > tell me what tool is actually running at any given time? Is there > > any way to tell what Cygwin is doing down in its guts? Does anyone > > have any other sugge

RE: Cygwin build system SOOOO SLOOOWWWW ???

2005-09-15 Thread Jan Schormann
Steve, we've been struggling with speeding up our build process, too, so I'd like to share some ideas - yet I'm not so certain whether you'll learn from me or I'll learn from you: Hopefully both. You wrote on Wednesday, September 14, 2005 3:45 AM: > Greetings To All, > > We've been using Cygwin

Cygwin build system SOOOO SLOOOWWWW ???

2005-09-13 Thread Steve Johnson
Greetings To All, We've been using Cygwin for many years to host our software build system on Win32. The system is built on top of gmake. We use the same gmake system on MacOSX, Linux, and Solaris. Building under Cygwin has always been slower than on true *nix platforms. This is expec