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

From: Arthur Carlsson (arthur_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-05-24 15:02:26

I've been having the very same problem. But with my crappy computer (512 Mb
ram...) it took me 3 days for the install stage and, as you say,
common.copytakes most of the time.

Regards.
- Arthur

On 5/24/07, chun ping wang <cablepuff_at_[hidden]> wrote:
>
> basically yeah.. common.copy takes about 85 percent of the time.
>
> On 5/24/07, Vladimir Prus <ghost_at_[hidden]> wrote:
> >
> > 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
> >
> >
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