AIX build very slow

KRAJCSOVITS Gyorgy krajo@inf.elte.hu
Mon May 23 19:10:00 GMT 2005


On Mon, 23 May 2005, Daniel Berlin wrote:

> On Mon, 2005-05-23 at 14:45 +0200, Carlo Corridore wrote:
> > I had the same problem with Aix 4.3.3.
> > It seems that Aix, during configuration, decrease the priority
> > of the configuring shell.
>
> No, that's not it.
> Its that ksh creates a ton of temp files to do operations that configure
> is trying to do.
> BASH does not, thus bash is much faster at configuring
> (100x :P)
>
Thanks everyone, that was it. Guess my plan to compile bash with gcc
backfired :)
For the archives: use bash instead of ksh as shell on AIX 5.2 if build is
very slow.
bye, krajo



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