Re: why is make so bloody slow (for me)

[Corinna Vinschen <corinna at vinschen dot de>]

Kevin Layer wrote:
> 
> I'm running Windows 2000 on a PIII 700 with 256mb of PC100 ECC RAM.
> It's not the machine, obviously.  It's probably win2k, but I thought
> I'd ask...
> 
> I'm running the V1.0 of cygwin.
> [...]
>   Reading makefiles...
>   Reading makefile `makefile'...
>   Reading makefile `../makefile.top' (search path) (no ~ expansion)...
>   Reading makefile `../makefile.defs' (search path) (no ~ expansion)...
>   Got a SIGCHLD; 1 unreaped children.
>   Got a SIGCHLD; 1 unreaped children.
>   Got a SIGCHLD; 1 unreaped children.
>   Got a SIGCHLD; 1 unreaped children.
> 
> There is a 10 second pause after each of the above 4 lines is
> printed.  The overall effect is that it takes a good minute or two to
> get to doing some real work.

I'm using W2K since B3 and I never saw _that_ one. On my machine
PII 450, it runs fast enough. On the first glimps you wouldn't
see a difference to NT4.

So I would like to ask some questions:

- Do you have network paths in $PATH?
- Related: Are you working in a folder which is connected
  as drive?
- Are you logged on as Admin, Power User, Normal User?
- Are you using a virus checker? Which one?
- Could you please send output of cygcheck -s -r -v to me?

Maybe, the solution is quite simple but how knows...

Corinna

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