From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 15517 invoked by alias); 15 Feb 2011 05:13:50 -0000 Received: (qmail 15509 invoked by uid 22791); 15 Feb 2011 05:13:48 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.5 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW,TW_YG X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from sitemail2.everyone.net (HELO imta-38.everyone.net) (216.200.145.36) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Tue, 15 Feb 2011 05:13:41 +0000 Received: from pps.filterd (omta005 [127.0.0.1]) by imta-38.everyone.net (8.14.4/8.14.4) with SMTP id p1F5DO0M026306 for ; Mon, 14 Feb 2011 21:13:39 -0800 Received: from dm0227.mta.everyone.net (lb009-10-float.sj2.proofpoint.com [172.16.0.1]) by imta-38.everyone.net with ESMTP id ufk3m00m9-1 for ; Mon, 14 Feb 2011 21:13:39 -0800 X-Eon-Dm: dm0227 Received: by dm0227.mta.everyone.net (EON-AUTHRELAY2 - ae18b8cb) id dm0227.4d561883.4d73b for ; Mon, 14 Feb 2011 21:13:39 -0800 X-Eon-Sig: AQMb1uJNWguDFfJydgIAAAAB,e06f537d21e921ca6bc03f332bed38d9 Message-ID: <4D5A0B8C.9050500@member.fsf.org> Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2011 05:13:00 -0000 From: L Anderson User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.16) Gecko/20101123 SeaMonkey/2.0.11 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Please add 'AVG Internet Security 2011' to the BLODA list (and cygport also :-) ). References: <4D4F77BE.4000305@serv.net> <4D50138B.5020001@redhat.com> In-Reply-To: <4D50138B.5020001@redhat.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Proofpoint-Spam-Details: rule=notspam policy=default score=0 spamscore=0 ipscore=0 suspectscore=1 phishscore=0 bulkscore=0 adultscore=0 classifier=spam adjust=0 reason=mlx scancount=1 engine=6.0.2-1012030000 definitions=main-1102140206 X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com X-SW-Source: 2011-02/txt/msg00367.txt.bz2 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 -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple