Re: cygwin on win98

On Mon 27 Aug 2001 19:58, Nicholas Clark <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 27, 2001 at 08:34:18AM -0400, Will Coleda wrote:
> > 
> > Remember my previous 'make distclean' thread? When I started this 
> > conversation, I was trying to get things up and running on cygwin, 
> > which appears to take FOREVER on make distclean, presumably because of 
> > all the process spawning. The timing seems quite reasonable on other 
> > platforms. (words cannot convey how hideously slow it was)
> ...
> As you can see, rm -rf followed by cloning a tree is about 4 times faster
> than make distclean. If you've got gnu cp, and it can do the link tree
> (cp -lr) then it's about 10 times faster than clonetree.
> 
> Can cygwin do hard links? If not, can it do symlinks? There's already a
> -Dmksymlinks in Configure that will make a symlink forest into an empty
> directory, leaving (almost (chmod 0666 grumble grumble)) virgin source code
> in another directory.
> 
> clonetree.pl can be added to the smoking kit if Merijn thinks it sensible.

Yes, because it frees time for tests ;-)

Patches please against 1.03 and don't forget the doc's (or am I pushing now ?-)

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