Re: [Boost-users] [1.34.0] building on cygwin fails out of the box

From: Vladimir Prus (ghost_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-05-24 14:27:21

chun ping wang wrote:

> hey thanks.. the ./configure make install now works .. but there is some
> problem with the build process.. for some reason on cygwin the
> installation happens to be super slow on my computer.. installing boost
> through dev-cpp takes 15 mintues top..installing through cygwin for some
> reason takes 5 hours ... ( common.copy). I know its a little off topic..
> but taking 5 hours to install boost shouldn't be common..

This is indeed unexpected, but I have no idea what could be wrong. Is
most of this time indeed spent copying files?

- Volodya