gcc on AIX 4.3.3 - installation problem

[Robert Boehne]

Paul Koning wrote:
> 
> >>>>> "George" == George R Goffe <George.R.Goffe@seagate.com> writes:
> 
>  George> Florian,
> 
>  George> I'm surprised that it would take 15 hours to build gcc. I'm
>  George> on sun hardware (solaris 2.8, ultra-5; 400 mhz cpu) and the
>  George> builds take on the order of 1 to 2 hours.
> 
> I don't have specific timings, but my DELL laptop (500 MHz???) took at
> least 4 hours to do a full boot.  The three phases of GCC aren't so
> bad, but after that was all finished I spent a LONG time waiting for
> libjava.
> 
>         paul

FWIW, on my AIX 4.3.3 box it takes more than 15 hours to bootstrap
gcc with c and c++.  This is VERY easy to fix,
buy a faster box.  ;)

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