Eliminate make's search for sh.exe under Cygwin?

[Marcus A Martin]

Some more.

Marcus

> -----Original Message-----
> From: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com
> [ mailto:cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com]On Behalf Of Earnie Boyd
> Sent: Saturday, March 10, 2001 10:18 AM
> To: cygwin@cygwin.com
> Subject: Re: Eliminate make's search for sh.exe under Cygwin?
>
>
> Christopher Faylor wrote:
> >
> > Recent posts in the cygwin mailing list have pointed to the fact that
> > make is pretty slow and have mentioned that make takes some time
> > searching for sh.exe.
> >
> > I'm not sure why make, running under Cygwin, goes out of its way to
> > search for sh.exe on the PATH.  Maybe this is a holdover from the times
> > when there wasn't necessarily a /bin in the Cygwin distributions.  It's
> > possible that Red Hat may even distribute things that way -- but I can
> > take care of that.
> >
> > I am thinking that we can probably rip out most of the logic currently
> > in make for finding a shell in the path and just let it use /bin/sh when
> > MAKE_MODE=unix or find command.com/cmd.exe when MAKE_MODE=win32.
> >
> > Does this sound like a good plan?  Am I missing something?  Will having
> > make operate more like UNIX cause some problem that I'm not aware of?
> >
>
> Hmm...  I seem to recall that make goes through lots of extra logic when
> WIN32 is defined so perhaps the removal of that definition alone will
> help.  (I haven't looked recently.)  Perhaps you should ask the "cause
> some problem" question internally at sources.redhat?  I can't fathom
> that it would cause problems for the normal "I want UNIX or bust" user.
>
> Earnie.
>
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