* Paul Eggert wrote on Wed, Jun 07, 2006 at 08:27:17PM CEST: > "H.Merijn Brand" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > First two bloks of tests passed (bison 2.2 did not pass), after which I > > killed the tests, as AIX is soooooooo slow with the tests that I do not > > care to wait for it to crash, because of the fact that the test suite > > generates so many 'sh\d+.\d+' files on /tmp, that 'make check' cannot > > finish, as /tmp is flooded. > > Thanks for letting us know. The test suite problem is more an > Autoconf issue so I'm CC'ing this to bug-autoconf.
It's a long-known fact that the AIX /bin/sh is painfully slow due to this. The GCC install manual has recommended setting CONFIG_SHELL to bash for years. We could consider special-casing AIX, or preferring bash in any case. Neither of which I'd like to do before 2.60, nor any other changes to the shell selection. Adding a recommendation for setting CONFIG_SHELL to bash would be rather safe, though. BTW, does the flooding lead to /tmp being full, /bin/sh running out of file descriptors, running out of file names, or did you just kill it at one point while it was still running? Cheers, Ralf
