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 -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/