On 29/03/2011 09:50, Bernd Roesch wrote: > Hello > > On 28.03.11, you wrote: > >> I think that the right place for the note is at >> >> http://gcc.gnu.org/install/specific.html#x-x-cygwin >> >> It should say something like: >> >> Versions of Cygwin older than x.y.z fail to build the decimal floating >> point library, libbid. You will either need to upgrade Cygwin to a newer >> version or disable decimal floating point by specifying >> --disable-decimal-float at configure time. > > I think it can too in readme add that on current cygwin on win 64 and > multicore CPU GCC compile lots slower as on single CPU systems. To speed up > GCC and compile 3* faster in windows taskmanager can the CPU number set to > 1 for the shell task. > > But i hope there come some day a fix for this problem.I get sometimes hang > and after 10-20 sec come a message that vfork problem is detect. maybe when > GCC use fork for task create or native windows task create it work better ?
This sounds like the generic Cygwin fork-error/BLODA problem and not specific to GCC. cheers, DaveK