Well, it was OK at first after a reinstall with the "default" setup,
enough to run and build a project with an cross compiled embedded
toolchain. But when I install gcc, make, svn etc (enough to compile the
openocd project) then it is slow again. I ran strace on the make process
again and see lines like this that look bad:
3688545 13178956 [proc_waiter] make 868
pinfo::maybe_set_exit_code_from_windows: pid 9176, exit value - old
0x8000000, windows 0xDEADBEEF, cygwin 0x8000000n/
The "deadbeef" sounds like a marker of some sort?
This delay occur repetitively and many times during the build.
I think the *exact* same problem is pointed to by this thread:
http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/2007-02/msg00571.html
Unfortunately, no solution is described. :(
If I set my windows path into /usr/bin of cygwin, I can run the same
build in a dos cmd window and it runs fast. For me, it is only slow in
the cygwin terminal. However, for my co-worker, it seems to be slow for
him too in the dos box (I have no idea why).