bootstrap/5644: Building g++ on AIX 5.1 seems to loop forever

[Zack Weinberg]

On Mon, Apr 01, 2002 at 11:52:20AM +0200, Jan-Frode Myklebust wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 31, 2002 at 11:31:04AM -0700, Roger Sayle wrote:
> 
> > On the local IBM machine
> > that I have here it currently takes 15 hours to bootstrap CVS.  So your
> > build should complete if you let it run for another few hours (your log
> > stops in the second to last multilib).
> 
> Yes, you're right. It took 10:08:26 of real time to bootstrap gcc 3.0.4 on
> our 1.3GHz POWER4 system. Sorry for bothering you with a non-bug. 

I posted a patch some time ago which might fix the performance problem
with the AIX shell: <http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2002-03/msg00086.html>.
No one has tested it and reported whether it works or not.  Would you
mind giving it a try?

zw