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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