Re: Make problem since 1.5.7

[Larry Hall <cygwin-lh at cygwin dot com>]

At 12:38 PM 3/26/2004, you wrote:
>Hello,
>
>With all cygwin-versions starting with 1.5.7 (including the snapshot
>20040322) I experience major problems with make, leading to a major (>
>20x) increase in the time make needs for a specific single target in our
>project make system (which is quite complex, includes >100 sub-makefiles
>and is not written in-house).
>
>According to the task-manager the system happily divides all cpu-time
>between two make-tasks and csrss.exe.
>
>I tried looking at "make -d" and strace output, but cannot make very
>much sense of the output.
>
>One thing that does stick out in the "bad" case is an exceptionally
>large number of "Got a SIGCHLD; 2 unreaped children" "Got a SIGCHLD; 1
>unreaped children" messages in the "make -d" output after the point
>where make checks that it has to remake a specific file and before the
>actual rebuilding (in this case, an "ar" call).
>
>The "make -d" output for the "good" case also contains some of those
>messages, but far fewer.
>
>I can provide the strace and "make -d" output for both cases, if that
>would help, but these files are VERY large.
>
>Thanks for any help or hints what to check,
>Ingmar Sittl
>
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>Cygwin Win95/NT Configuration Diagnostics
>Current System Time: Fri Mar 26 12:10:59 2004
>
>Windows 2000 Professional Ver 5.0 Build 2195 Service Pack 3
>
>Path:   C:\cygwin\bin
>    C:\cygwin\bin
>    C:\cygwin\usr\local\bin
>    C:\cygwin\usr\X11R6\bin
>    c:\j2sdk1.4.2\bin\
>    c:\emacs-21.2\bin\
>    c:\jikes-1.15\bin
>    c:\Program Files\XEmacs\XEmacs-21.4.13\i586-pc-win32\
>    c:\tmp\tornado2_1\host\i686-pc-cygwin\bin\
>    c:\TornadoSH\host\x86-win32\bin

   ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Please pull these last 2 directories out of your path and try again.  This
eliminates the possibility of a tool conflict/interaction.


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