Re: Documenting tools necessary for GCC [draft]

[Phil Edwards <phil at jaj dot com>]

On Thu, May 29, 2003 at 09:07:35PM -0400, Kaveh R. Ghazi wrote:
>  > From: Joe Buck <jbuck@synopsys.com>
>  > 
>  > On Thu, May 29, 2003 at 08:45:28PM -0400, David Edelsohn wrote:
>  > > 	Clarification: ksh *does* work on AIX, but it is unbearably slow.
>  > > Bash is preferred, but not necessary, for bootstrapping GCC on AIX.
>  > 
>  > That would explain it ... I tried building GCC on an old AIX box using
>  > ksh, and it took literally days.
> 
> Yes, I considered the performance implosion another reason to get
> bash.  I'll clarify that in the doc.

I've probably asked this before, but don't recall the answer:  why aren't
we detecting these conditions at the top of configure.in and re-exec'ing
the shell?


Phil

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