gmake is slow under cygwin

[Chris Faylor]

On Tue, Sep 26, 2000 at 01:57:40PM -0600, Scott Carter wrote:
>I haven't had this problem in my makefiles, but yesterday I happened to be
>trying out a makefile that someone else sent me, and I experienced a *huge*
>delay. I haven't tried to analyze it, but I did observe this. When the VPATH
>is set to any of the following (which, by the way, don't work correctly in
>the test makefile) 
>
>VPATH = c:/temp/test/source
>VPATH = /cygdrive/c/temp/test/source
>VPATH = //c/temp/test/source
>
>There is no long delay. When VPATH is set to this (which is incorrect)
>
>VPATH = //cygdrive/c/temp/test/source

Hmm.  I can see why that would cause a huge delay.  This is a very good
point.  Thanks for bringing it up.

I can easily see someone translating //c to //cygdrive/c and seeing the
delay the you describe.

cgf

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