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RE: Need Volunteers to test patch for gnu make
- From: "Gary R. Van Sickle" <g dot r dot vansickle at worldnet dot att dot net>
- To: <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Fri, 8 Sep 2006 22:12:44 -0500
- Subject: RE: Need Volunteers to test patch for gnu make
Hi Bill,
> From: William A. Hoffman
> Sent: Friday, September 08, 2006 2:35 PM
> Subject: Re: Need Volunteers to test patch for gnu make
>
> At 12:38 PM 9/8/2006, William A. Hoffman wrote:
>
> >Thanks Bob. OK, so that is three people that have tested
> this patch.
> >Please try the patch if you use make. DOS paths will be on
> by DEFAULT
> >and there will be no way to turn it off. We want to make
> sure this does
> >not break any POSIX based makefiles.
>
> Since folks seem to be adverse to building from source, I
> have made the patched make.exe available here:
>
> http://www.cmake.org/files/cygwin/make.exe
You might want to strip this; it's ~4xxkB unstripped, 147kB stripped.
> Please try it, and report any problems on this list.
>
> Thanks.
>
> -Bill
>
I just finished trying it on my standard test, building a cvs pull of
wxWindows tip. Worked like a charm. It even shaved almost 18 seconds (!)
(;-)) off my build time:
Old make:
$ time make
[...]
real 23m30.751s
user 3m57.150s
sys 3m2.379s
New make (i.e. the one from your link, but stripped):
$ time make
[...]
real 23m13.115s
^^------------ 18 seconds saved (approx. 1%)
user 3m56.285s
sys 3m2.261s
So, I shall take that 18 seconds to also thank you for your great work. ;-)
--
Gary R. Van Sickle
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