From: L Anderson <lowella@member.fsf.org>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: Please add 'AVG Internet Security 2011' to the BLODA list (and cygport also :-) ).
Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2011 05:13:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4D5A0B8C.9050500@member.fsf.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4D50138B.5020001@redhat.com>
Eric Blake wrote:
> On 02/06/2011 09:40 PM, L Anderson wrote:
>> In regards to the aforementioned while loop in 'conftest.c'--the logic
>> of it being run for every invocation of a 'coreutils' build escapes me.
>> I can see running it once per OS, outside of the build process, to
>> determine if the given OS does the right thing; after that, shouldn't it
>> just be a case of checking if the OS being used has been tested and
>> deemed to behave properly?
>
> Yes, this particular configure test takes a long time, even without
> virus scanning, on WinXP (where Microsoft has an O(n^2) implementation);
> it's faster on newer Windows (where Microsoft fixed things to be O(n)).
>
> You can pre-seed a config.site cache to skip the test by using a known
> outcome result (in fact, I do just that when building coreutils):
>
> $ cat>> /usr/config.site<<\EOF
> # configure gets the right answer, but only after hammering the system
> gl_cv_func_getcwd_path_max=yes
> EOF
>
Thanks for the hint--it allowed me to by-pass the test. However, for
the record, based on 'coreutils-8.10-1--configure[3295,3296]', I think
you meant:
> $ cat>> /usr/share/config.site<<\EOF
> # configure gets the right answer, but only after hammering the system
> gl_cv_func_getcwd_path_max=yes
> EOF
xor
> $ cat>> /usr/etc/config.site<<\EOF
> # configure gets the right answer, but only after hammering the system
> gl_cv_func_getcwd_path_max=yes
> EOF
Correct?
I used the latter and it did the trick.
Regards,
LA
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-02-15 5:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-02-07 4:40 L Anderson
2011-02-07 5:48 ` David Arnstein
2011-02-07 9:16 ` Vincent Rivière
2011-02-07 16:37 ` L Anderson
2011-02-07 15:45 ` Eric Blake
2011-02-15 5:13 ` L Anderson [this message]
2011-02-15 15:17 ` Eric Blake
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