Slow Cygwin performance

[joel.sherrill at OARcorp.com (Joel Sherrill)]

Peter Shoebridge wrote:
> 
> I do all my development using cygwin on NT and haven't experienced this one.
> I'm not sure exactly what collect2 does but seems like it's searching the
> whole drive for libraries to link???

That's what I was thinking but I can't seem to figure out what is wrong with my
setup.

> BTW: Joel, doesn't look like your patch made it into gcc-2.95.1!!

No.  gcc 2.95.1 was only for serious fixes.  No feature changes.

> Peter
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Joel Sherrill <joel.sherrill at oarcorp.com>
> To: <rtems-snapshots at oarcorp.com>
> Sent: Thursday, August 19, 1999 3:01 PM
> Subject: Slow Cygwin performance
> 
> >
> > Hi,,
> >
> > I have been trying to install cygwin natively in an attempt to
> > begin building a cross environment.  The native compiler
> > took 6.5 minutes to link hello.o --> hello.exe.  It was
> > pretty quick to go from hello.c --> hello.o but then seems
> > to stall at collect2 according to the -v option output.
> >
> > I am on a reasonably fast machine with a LOT of RAM.
> >
> > Suggestions appreciated.
> >
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