Documenting tools necessary for GCC [draft]

Kaveh R. Ghazi ghazi@caip.rutgers.edu
Fri May 30 01:35:00 GMT 2003


 > From: Joe Buck <jbuck@synopsys.com>
 > 
 > On Thu, May 29, 2003 at 08:45:28PM -0400, David Edelsohn wrote:
 > > 	Clarification: ksh *does* work on AIX, but it is unbearably slow.
 > > Bash is preferred, but not necessary, for bootstrapping GCC on AIX.
 > 
 > That would explain it ... I tried building GCC on an old AIX box using
 > ksh, and it took literally days.

Yes, I considered the performance implosion another reason to get
bash.  I'll clarify that in the doc.

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Kaveh R. Ghazi			ghazi@caip.rutgers.edu



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