On Wed, 7 Jun 2006 20:38:38 +0200, Ralf Wildenhues <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> * 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. And if one does not have bash? > 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. Sure. > 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? My personal notes tell me both out of file descriptors, amd file system full happened. Since then, I just kill the test suite once I see enough passes and no fails As a side note: I don't care about AIX at all. I would be the happiest man on earth if all our IBM customers would switch to HP-UX or Linux. But in the end, they still pay my salary, so I just have to do it :( -- H.Merijn Brand Amsterdam Perl Mongers (http://amsterdam.pm.org/) using & porting perl 5.6.2, 5.8.x, 5.9.x on HP-UX 10.20, 11.00, 11.11, & 11.23, SuSE 10.0, AIX 4.3 & 5.2, and Cygwin. http://qa.perl.org http://mirrors.develooper.com/hpux/ http://www.test-smoke.org http://www.goldmark.org/jeff/stupid-disclaimers/
