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From: "Hannu E K Nevalainen \(garbage mail\)" <garbage_collector AT telia DOT com>
To: <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: RE: latest cygcheck -c is expensive
Date: Sun, 7 Sep 2003 12:25:08 +0200
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> From: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com [mailto:cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com]On Behalf
> Of Christopher Faylor

> >On Fri, Sep 05, 2003 at 08:42:49PM -0400, Jason Tishler wrote:
> >>On Fri, Sep 05, 2003 at 03:01:27PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> >>> If the only concern is that cygcheck takes a long time, now, then,
> >>> like I said, that is something that can be rectified.
> >>
> >>Yes, the above is my real concern.
> >
> >I just hacked cygcheck to avoid calling gzip and use a mingw libz.a
> >(courtesy of Chuck Wilson) and it takes 26 seconds to complete on my
> >dual PIII 733MHZ WinXP system.  I have most packages installed.
> >
> >Is that still too slow?
>
> I should add that the previous version took 1 minute, 9 seconds.
>
> cgf

 A good enhancement IMO... though;

 I can imagine a situation where someone is trying to automate a thing or
two in cygwin (likely to be postinstall/preremove only?), using cygcheck...
[Workaround: Create output of cygcheck and 'grep' it instead?]

Already two calls, an extra minute (or two, read below), might tend to
"enfuriate" an impatient user (e.g. me! ;-).

NOTE:
 This would undoubtedly lead to questions like "cygwin install froze! Why?"
on this list.

[ cygcheck -c   on W2K 450MHz PII -> about 1 minute]

/Hannu E K Nevalainen, B.Sc. EE - 59?16.37'N, 17?12.60'E
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