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<p class="MsoNormal">Tamar<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I’ve noticed that “sh” (which is invoked at lot by make etc) takes AGES to start up.  At least I think it’s ‘sh’ that is causing the delay.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I think it’s c:/msys64/usr/bin/sh.exe<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">From searching the web (eg <a href="https://www2.cs.duke.edu/csl/docs/unix_course/intro-60.html">
https://www2.cs.duke.edu/csl/docs/unix_course/intro-60.html</a>)  it seems likely that it executes c:/msys64/etc/profile first.
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<p class="MsoNormal">And If I put an ‘echo’ at the start and end of that file, they do seem to take place with a significant gap between them.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I have not started sprinkling more echos, but does that ring any bells?
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<p class="MsoNormal">Can I replace ‘sh’ with c:/msys64/usr/bin/bash.exe, which seems to be faster?   (My evnt variable SHELL already points to bash.exe. )  And if so, how would I do that? An environment variable.  Physically copy bash.exe to sh.exe?  Or what?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Thanks<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Simon<o:p></o:p></p>
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