performance enhancements for cygwin make

[Norbert Thiebaud]

On Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 3:11 AM, Noel Grandin <noelgrandin at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On 2012-03-08 10:59, Norbert Thiebaud wrote:
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>> the gmake we use is a cygwin-gmake not a WINDOW32 gmake so to build it on
>> cygwin
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> yeah, I'm working on the version from the dev-tools/make-3.82-gbuild
> repository
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>> ./configure make should be enough and autotools should detect cygwin
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> It's detecting gcc and compiling a normal version fine, but it's not
> compiling the stuff behind the WINDOWS32 #define
> Maybe I should be using a different #define, something like
> #ifdef WINDOWS32 || __CYGWIN__

no because the path you'd get under cygwin is unlikely to be supported
by a native WIN32 call.
but then, it is hard to comment on abstract... post the patches, maybe
I get a better idea of what you mean

Norbert