gcc on AIX 4.3.3 - installation problem

[David Edelsohn]

>>>>> George R Goffe writes:

George> I'm surprised that it would take 15 hours to build gcc. I'm on sun hardware
George> (solaris 2.8, ultra-5; 400 mhz cpu) and the builds take on the order of 1
George> to 2 hours.

George> Any ideas why this would take so long? What is the system doing?

	First, AIX has more multilibs than Solaris.  Second, AIX shell has
the same problem as Digital Unix, both inherited from OSF/1, that it
creates temporary files for some shell commands which increases configure
time considerably.  This is why, as has been discussed numerous times on
the GCC list, I configured with Bash.  A sequential bootstrap, test, and
install takes me about 8 hours.

David