Documenting tools necessary for GCC [draft]

[David Edelsohn]

>>>>> Kaveh R Ghazi writes:

>> When is ksh defective?

Kaveh> David E mentioned that AIX ksh doesn't work, there may be others.  I
Kaveh> get intermitant failures on irix6.5 using ksh, but not on irix6.2.
Kaveh> OTOH, I use ksh on solaris2 and it always works, hence the hedging
Kaveh> about ksh.  I prefer not to document all the place where it works and
Kaveh> doesn't because this list will change in subtle ways every time we
Kaveh> modify the configure files.

	Clarification: ksh *does* work on AIX, but it is unbearably slow.
Bash is preferred, but not necessary, for bootstrapping GCC on AIX.

David