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Re: Documenting tools necessary for GCC [draft]
- From: "Kaveh R. Ghazi" <ghazi at caip dot rutgers dot edu>
- To: dje at watson dot ibm dot com, jbuck at synopsys dot com
- Cc: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org, jsm28 at cam dot ac dot uk
- Date: Thu, 29 May 2003 21:07:35 -0400 (EDT)
- Subject: Re: Documenting tools necessary for GCC [draft]
- References: <ghazi@caip.rutgers.edu> <200305300045.UAA24118@makai.watson.ibm.com> <20030529175913.A29078@synopsys.com>
> 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.
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Kaveh R. Ghazi ghazi@caip.rutgers.edu