Re: Which is it -pc- or -unknown-

2017-10-21 Thread Steven Penny
On Sat, 21 Oct 2017 16:17:13, cyg Simple wrote: 5 sec * 2300 packages = 11,500 sec 11,500 sec is 3.19 hours > Which in a build like FFmpeg or similar, is statistically 0. > 1 package once in a while doesn't matter. > So perhaps you have some data to show a non-trivial amount of time saved >

Re: Which is it -pc- or -unknown-

2017-10-21 Thread cyg Simple
On 10/21/2017 3:26 PM, Steven Penny wrote: > On Sat, 21 Oct 2017 13:29:43, cyg Simple wrote: >> Changing the default does improve the speed of configure because >> configure no longer needs to execute GCC to figure out where the build >> files are.  Yes the time saved is small but time is expensive

Re: Which is it -pc- or -unknown-

2017-10-21 Thread Steven Penny
On Sat, 21 Oct 2017 13:29:43, cyg Simple wrote: Changing the default does improve the speed of configure because configure no longer needs to execute GCC to figure out where the build files are. Yes the time saved is small but time is expensive so any saving is a big deal, especially with such a

[ANNOUNCEMENT] [Updated] mingw64-{i686,x86_64}-gcc

2017-10-21 Thread JonY
The mingw-w64 cross compilers have been updated: * mingw64-i686-gcc-6.4.0-1 * mingw64-x86_64-gcc-6.4.0-2 The gcov-dump tool was left out in mingw64-x86_64-gcc-6.4.0-1, hence the -2 release. Note that ADA/GNAT is no longer supported in the cross compiler. *** CYGWIN-ANNOUNCE UNSUBS

Re: Which is it -pc- or -unknown-

2017-10-21 Thread cyg Simple
On 10/20/2017 6:47 PM, Steven Penny wrote: > On Fri, 20 Oct 2017 15:53:28, cyg Simple wrote: >> I appreciate what Yaakov does but I bet these are not built in native >> Cygwin mode so a host must be supplied.  In native mode the default is >> typically used and currently it doesn't match the expect