RE: Make 3.79.1 - dependency checking & previous versions

2002-02-25 Thread John Segrave \(x3254\)
Larry - thanks for those files. I think we have our issue sorted: when we use the FSF win32 port of make 3.79.1, dependency checking works fine - when we use the cygwin port of make 3.79.1, it doesn't. For the moment we can get away with using the FSF port, but as soon as I get time I'll try to

RE: Make 3.79.1 - dependency checking & previous versions

2002-02-21 Thread John Segrave \(x3254\)
Larry, Thanks for your reply. >> It would be handy if I could pin the slowdown to a specific >> version of make, but I can't find any cygwin install packages >> for any version other than 3.79.1-5. Is there an archive >> anywhere for old cygwin packages? > My personal archive goes back to Jun

Make 3.79.1 - dependency checking & previous versions

2002-02-20 Thread John Segrave \(x3254\)
We've recently moved to GNU Make 3.79.1 (from 3.77) on Windows NT and have noticed that on a large project there is a noticeable drop in speed during the automatic dependency checking which is done at the beginning of a build. Our dependency checking is done in a standard enough way (a .d file fo