Problem Building Stage 3 / AIX 5.1, Visual Age C 5.0.2

Problem Building Stage 3 / AIX 5.1, Visual Age C 5.0.2

[cjs 2895]

Folks,

I'm trying to build GCC 3.2 under AIX 5.1 with Visual Age C 5.0.2.0 as the 
bootstrap compiler.

I've managed to get the first two stages of of GCC to build successfully 
(I'm using GNU as and ld, and I had to make a couple typecasts in tradcif.y) 
but when I get to stage 3 I'm getting stuck in the configure scripts -- each 
item that causes configure to run the compiler takes ~2 minutes to complete. 
At this speed it will take ~12 hours for configure to complete before the 
stage 3 build starts. Its almost as if when the stage 2 compiler is invoked, 
it sleeps for two minutes before executing -- but If I invoke the stage 2 
compiler directly I can not reprproduce this behavior. Can anyone think of 
what could possibly be causing this? Please reply in private and I'll post a 
summary at a later date. The steps I've used to get to this point are as 
follows:

wget -nd -nH -c -t 0 -w 1 http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gcc/gcc-3.2/gcc-3.2.tar.gz
wget -nd -nH -c -t 0 -w 1 
http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/binutils/binutils-2.13.tar.bz2
gtar -xvzf gcc-3.2.tar.gz
gtar --use-compress-program=bunzip2 -xvf binutils-2.13.tar.bz2
cd gcc-3.2
ln -s ../binutils-2.13 binutils
CC=cc ./configure --enable-languages=c,c++ --disable-nls --with-gnu-as 
--with-gnu-ld --with-gnu-nm
gmake bootstrap



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Re: Problem Building Stage 3 / AIX 5.1, Visual Age C 5.0.2

[David Edelsohn]

	I would recommend that you use the default AIX assembler, linker,
and nm, ar, etc. instead of the GNU Assembler, GNU Linker, and GNU
Binutils.  This is mentioned in the platform-specific installation notes.

	Configure will not be invoked between each build stage.  Configure
is run manually before the compiler is built and the building process runs
configure for the various target libraries, but that is not Stage 3.  If
you are referring to configure to build libraries, you can speed this up
by using GNU Bash shell instead of /bin/sh.

make SHELL=/usr/local/bin/bash CONFIG_SHELL=/usr/local/bin/bash ...

David