On 29/03/2011 09:50, Bernd Roesch wrote:
> Hello
>
> On 28.03.11, you wrote:
>
>> I think that the right place for the note is at
>>
>> http://gcc.gnu.org/install/specific.html#x-x-cygwin
>>
>> It should say something like:
>>
>> Versions of Cygwin older than x.y.z fail to build the decimal floating
>> point library, libbid. You will either need to upgrade Cygwin to a newer
>> version or disable decimal floating point by specifying
>> --disable-decimal-float at configure time.
>
> I think it can too in readme add that on current cygwin on win 64 and
> multicore CPU GCC compile lots slower as on single CPU systems. To speed up
> GCC and compile 3* faster in windows taskmanager can the CPU number set to
> 1 for the shell task.
>
> But i hope there come some day a fix for this problem.I get sometimes hang
> and after 10-20 sec come a message that vfork problem is detect. maybe when
> GCC use fork for task create or native windows task create it work better ?
This sounds like the generic Cygwin fork-error/BLODA problem and not
specific to GCC.
cheers,
DaveK
