Re: Ways to speed up configure

[Dalibor Topic]

Hi Bob,

thanks for the quick reply!

Bob Friesenhahn wrote:
> The best way to speed up configure on Windows '98 is to upgrade to a
> newer version of Windows. :-)

<rant>
You can picture my very low enthusiasm for buying anything ever again 
from the folks that committed Windows 98. I seriously doubt that a 
company that's so good at making products without any apparent quality, 
is so great at creating products that endlessly waste my time, has 
anything to offer in terms of operating system products that could even 
barely compete with free software operating systems like Linux [1]. 
After dealing with their miserable operating system products for years, 
I don't think Microsoft's OSes are worth the price of the CD medium.
</rant>

But I keep hearing that it's a nice place to do research ;) So if 
Microsoft wants to hire me, I could do some research on whom they should 
fire for their lack of quality. ;)

> Quite seriously, Windows '98 is *terrible* at spawning subprocesses,
> particularly since it must constantly update the DOS window with the
> name of the currently running program.  The only way to make configure
> run significantly faster under Windows '98 is to put the configure
> script on a diet so it doesn't execute so many commands.

Uh, that's not going to work that well. I guess I'll have to ask on the 
Cygwin mailing list.

cheers,
dalibor topic

[1] Except Fedora Core 1. Fedora is about as bad as Windows 98. I wasted 
2 days trying to convince it to run on my p3-600MhZ notebook. Now it 
crawls and limps, barely.