Interim source package compilation instructions

[Harold L Hunt II]

Thomas Dickey wrote:

> On Thu, 18 Mar 2004, Harold L Hunt II wrote:
> 
> 
>>4) If you want to perform a clean rebuild, just run the following
>>command first before repeating step #3.  Beware that removing thousands
>>of files on my machine takes between 5 and 25 minutes (it varies for
>>some reason) and could take up to an hour if the Windows machine is
> 
> 
> cygwin's file-delete is very slow.  Generally the Windows delete is much
> faster (even counting emptying the trash).

Are you referring to a delete through Windows Explorer?  I assume you 
are because you are referring to the trash.  In fact, I quite often do a 
Shift+Delete on the folder to delete it without sending it to the trash, 
but this takes just as long if not longer.  NTFS was just not designed 
for several thousand files, nor does it allow for good delete 
performance of entire directory trees.  Not to say that those were bad 
decisions, they were basically trade offs that they had to make to do 
other things, but it is annoying.

>>particularly slow.  Of course, Linux with ResierFS completes this
>>operation immediately.
> 
> 
> sort of.  I've observed that there's a big performance hit when I untar
> large files or do other operations that create new files.  Haven't noticed
> that it's an faq though.

Not sure if you are talking about a performance hit under Cygwin or 
Linux?  I agree, untarring on Cygwin is horribly slow for large files. 
Linux usually doesn't have a problem with operations on thousands of 
files, at least not for me.

Harold