Hi, not a bug, but I don't know where to send this.
We have successfully compiled gmake on the Posix subsystem of Fujitsu-Siemens BS2000 mainframes. Problem is that it is pretty slow, since the concept of fork and exec is foreign to this system. They are emulated in a very costly manner. Since even on Unix these calls don't come for free either, I'd like to suggest that you take up the concept of Perl's system function. That scans the string passed for shell meta-characters and, if none are found, splits it up on whitespace and executes the command itself. As make is mostly about starting commands, this should give a measurable optimization for big projects even on Unix. best regards Daniel _______________________________________________ Bug-make mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-make
