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Re: Verrry slooowww when PATH is set to 60 directories
- To: "Guy T. Moore Jr." <gmoore at openmarket dot com>, cygwin at sourceware dot cygnus dot com
- Subject: Re: Verrry slooowww when PATH is set to 60 directories
- From: Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd at yahoo dot com>
- Date: Mon, 6 Mar 2000 12:21:16 -0800 (PST)
- Reply-To: earnie_boyd at yahoo dot com
--- "Guy T. Moore Jr." <gmoore@openmarket.com> wrote:
> I am getting extremely slow execution of make.exe when I set my
> PATH inside the Makefile to about 4000 characters long (total of 60 different
> directories)
> inside a Cygwin v1.0 window on WinNT 4.0.
>
This is known. Keep the path minimal. Directories on networked drives are the
slowest. You can modify PATH for cygwin by exporting a modified path from the
~/.bashrc file. This way you can leave the Windows PATH alone.
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Earnie Boyd: <mailto:earnie_boyd@yahoo.com>
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