Anyone else sees a bootstrap failure (Linux-x86)?

[Andrew Haley]

Ranjit Mathew writes:
 > Mohan Embar wrote:
 > >>   The last two 3.4 weekly snapshots consistently
 > >>ICE for me while making "jv-convert". I have not
 > >>changed any build flags and do not have any
 > >>local patches.
 > >>
 > >>I will investigate this a bit later, but I
 > >>just wanted to know if anyone else is also
 > >>seeing these failures and has any idea about
 > >>what could be wrong.
 > > 
 > > 
 > > It's your -pipe flag. Remove --pipe everywhere
 > > and your build will unbreak.
 > 
 > Really? Were you also seeing the same failure with "-pipe"?
 > 
 > "-pipe" is useful and eliminates a lot of temporary files creation,
 > somewhat speeding up the build.

Not on any sane platform.  Really, have you ever seen a significant
speedup?  Or is file creation so horribly slow on Windows that this is
a real issue?

Andrew.