On 06/07/2023 17:18, Brian Inglis via Cygwin-apps wrote:
On 2023-07-06 06:19, Andrew Schulman via Cygwin-apps wrote:
Recently I noticed that `cygport finish` has become really slow on
some of my
package source trees. After I run for example
cygport libargp.cygport finish
it waits for about 5 minutes without any message to the console,
before the
first "Removing work directory" message appears.
pstree shows that during this time cygport is waiting for chattr. In
/usr/bin/cygport I see:
if [ $OSTYPE = "cygwin" ]
then
chattr -fR +C ${workdir} >/dev/null 2>&1 || true
fi
which is trying to make the workdir case-sensitive.
Whatever the advantages of that are, it can take a long time. Would it be
possible to skip it at least in the case of "finish"? It seems silly
to spend
all that time fixing up a directory tree that we then turn around and
remove
with rm -rf.
The attribute does not appear to be inheritable, so will not be applied
to subdirectories created by make, or in cygport xargs commands, unless
supported in cygwin1.dll, perhaps why it is open coded in cygport?
I believe that might have been the case in some previews, but it does
inherit now. Otherwise it's almost completely, unusably useless.
