Update of sr #110901 (group libtool): Status: Done => In Progress Open/Closed: Closed => Open
_______________________________________________________ Follow-up Comment #12: [comment #10 comment #10:] > Looks like MSys is still in (very inactive) use. > The project page has two years old activity. Could you link the project page here? > I wouldn't drop support for now, as it is easy to check for 'cygpath' > availability and use it, if it is present. I will work on a patch for this or something similar. > Not directly related: libtool could be inspected for other path conversions > as cygpath is much faster than conversion via cmd. I agree that this would be good to look at improving. I am not sure if I could complete this before the next release, but I will look into it. [comment #11 comment #11:] > I would still highly recommend adding a bypass ENV var as its fairly > straightforward to just use posix style compat windows paths. Giving the user > (or software) the ability to turn it off would seem beneficial. This sounds fine to me. Could you write a patch for this, or specify the ENV variable and parts of path conversion that you would like bypassed? > Libtool is quite slow on windows in many cases. A large part of this on > windows due to all the process spawning. While I don't mind manually > modifying the libtool script to strip this function out of automated builds > there is a bit of a dance to make sure it doesn't get restored over. Testing on windows for libtool is quite slow, but hopefully I can improve that soon. _______________________________________________________ Reply to this item at: <https://savannah.gnu.org/support/?110901> _______________________________________________ Message sent via Savannah https://savannah.gnu.org/
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