From: dje Date: Thu, 4 Mar 2004 04:53:59 +0000 (+0000) Subject: * doc/install.texi (*-ibm-aix*): Document use of Bash to speed up X-Git-Tag: upstream/4.9.2~72549 X-Git-Url: http://review.tizen.org/git/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=d54c3c084c07f9ceb5c8ff022c49b155fb4afa88;p=platform%2Fupstream%2Flinaro-gcc.git * doc/install.texi (*-ibm-aix*): Document use of Bash to speed up configuration. git-svn-id: svn+ssh://gcc.gnu.org/svn/gcc/trunk@78883 138bc75d-0d04-0410-961f-82ee72b054a4 --- diff --git a/gcc/ChangeLog b/gcc/ChangeLog index 54c6772..2b8701e 100644 --- a/gcc/ChangeLog +++ b/gcc/ChangeLog @@ -1,3 +1,8 @@ +2004-03-04 David Edelsohn + + * doc/install.texi (*-ibm-aix*): Document use of Bash to speed up + configuration. + 2004-03-03 Ian Lance Taylor * ggc-zone.c (ggc_pch_write_object): Don't align file pointer. diff --git a/gcc/doc/install.texi b/gcc/doc/install.texi index 8d19022..ecfec24 100644 --- a/gcc/doc/install.texi +++ b/gcc/doc/install.texi @@ -2875,6 +2875,18 @@ Support for AIX version 3 and older was discontinued in GCC 3.4. AIX Make frequently has problems with GCC makefiles. GNU Make 3.79.1 or newer is recommended to build on this platform. +To speed up the configuration phases of bootstrapping and installing GCC, +one may use GNU Bash instead of AIX @command{/bin/sh}, e.g., + +@smallexample + % CONFIG_SHELL=/opt/freeware/bin/bash + % export CONFIG_SHELL +@end smallexample + +and then proceed as described in @uref{build.html,,the build instructions}, +where we strongly recommend using GNU make and specifying an absolute path +to invoke @var{srcdir}/configure. + Errors involving @code{alloca} when building GCC generally are due to an incorrect definition of @code{CC} in the Makefile or mixing files compiled with the native C compiler and GCC@. During the stage1 phase of