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Re: Documenting tools necessary for GCC [draft]
- From: David Edelsohn <dje at watson dot ibm dot com>
- To: "Kaveh R. Ghazi" <ghazi at caip dot rutgers dot edu>
- Cc: jsm28 at cam dot ac dot uk, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Thu, 29 May 2003 20:45:28 -0400
- Subject: Re: Documenting tools necessary for GCC [draft]
>>>>> Kaveh R Ghazi writes:
>> When is ksh defective?
Kaveh> David E mentioned that AIX ksh doesn't work, there may be others. I
Kaveh> get intermitant failures on irix6.5 using ksh, but not on irix6.2.
Kaveh> OTOH, I use ksh on solaris2 and it always works, hence the hedging
Kaveh> about ksh. I prefer not to document all the place where it works and
Kaveh> doesn't because this list will change in subtle ways every time we
Kaveh> modify the configure files.
Clarification: ksh *does* work on AIX, but it is unbearably slow.
Bash is preferred, but not necessary, for bootstrapping GCC on AIX.
David