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

[Christopher Faylor]

On Sun, Mar 11, 2001 at 04:09:15PM -0500, Marcus A Martin wrote:
>Some more.

Argyle.

cgf

>> -----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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