Hi, <pcg@xxxxxxxx ( Marc) (A.) (Lehmann )> writes: > which is a severe shortcoming of the build environment (AFAIK, Msys > uses cygwin which is awfully slow due to a large number of > reasons). This sounds like if you had a clue on what is causing the slowliness of running configure on Cygnus. I recently compiled the Blinkenlights software on Windows and noticed this shortcoming as well. I wondered what might be the cause and if there are ways to work around it. Are there any? Sven