Re: Issue with VPN

[Paul Smith]

On Thu, 2021-01-07 at 18:01 +0000, Stühler, Martin wrote:
> I have some runtime issue with wingw32-make.exe, when I´m work at
> home and connected through VPN to the company. The issue is, that the
> mingw32-make.exe always want to connect (TCP) something to any
> internal company network and this makes the hole runtime very slow.

GNU make has no network interface at all; it never tries to do a
hostname lookup or connect to another system.

If something is trying to connect to the network when you invoke make,
then it must be some recipe in one of your makefiles is running a
program that tries to connect to the network for some reason, and
there's little we can do to help you with that.

You should investigate your makefiles to try to determine what command
is making things slow.  One way to do it would be to run your build
with the "-d" option and when the build seems to slow down or hang then
see what command is being invoked.