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Re: cygwin/mingw experiences
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Gary V. Vaughan |
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Re: cygwin/mingw experiences |
Date: |
Fri, 04 Feb 2005 11:29:40 +0000 |
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Hallo Ralf,
Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> - something is broken in the Makefile rules that causes regeneration
> of toplevel aclocal.m4 during `make check', after
> reconfdirs=. ./bootstrap
> (on HEAD/branch-2-0).
> I suspect this is a timestamp resolution issue.
ISTR that Windows file systems have only 2 second resolution, so it is
very easy to get into race conditions. This problem is getting worse
as systems get faster: when I last used cygwin regularly, about 5 years
ago, the average machine running cygwin was so slow that it didn't bite
too often. A strategic 'sleep 4' is almost certainly the fix...
unfortunately, finding the right spot is likely to be a real PITA :-(
Cheers,
Gary.
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