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Re: Eliminate make's search for sh.exe under Cygwin?


On Sat, Mar 10, 2001 at 10:18:09AM -0500, Earnie Boyd wrote:
>Christopher Faylor wrote:
>> 
>> Recent posts in the cygwin mailing list have pointed to the fact that
>> make is pretty slow and have mentioned that make takes some time
>> searching for sh.exe.
>> 
>> I'm not sure why make, running under Cygwin, goes out of its way to
>> search for sh.exe on the PATH.  Maybe this is a holdover from the times
>> when there wasn't necessarily a /bin in the Cygwin distributions.  It's
>> possible that Red Hat may even distribute things that way -- but I can
>> take care of that.
>> 
>> I am thinking that we can probably rip out most of the logic currently
>> in make for finding a shell in the path and just let it use /bin/sh when
>> MAKE_MODE=unix or find command.com/cmd.exe when MAKE_MODE=win32.
>> 
>> Does this sound like a good plan?  Am I missing something?  Will having
>> make operate more like UNIX cause some problem that I'm not aware of?
>> 
>
>Hmm...  I seem to recall that make goes through lots of extra logic when
>WIN32 is defined so perhaps the removal of that definition alone will
>help.  (I haven't looked recently.)  Perhaps you should ask the "cause
>some problem" question internally at sources.redhat?

If by "sources.redhat" you mean just Red Hat, that's what I meant by the
"but I can take care of that" above.

cgf

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