> > 1) years ago GCC took about 2 hours to compile, last year it was 26 > > hours for me, this year I just surpassed 48 hours and it is still > > going - it would be very nice if one could compile the compiler and > > what it needs without having to build the entire java set (yes I > > know it is bigger and better, but don't need all the parts) > > Configure with --disable-libgcj. I even considered making this the > default on SPARC/Solaris because libgcj build times are insanely > long in 4.x and the default setting is to build 2 such monsters on > Solaris 7 and up.
Not necessary. If people would simply follow the directions here: <http://gcc.gnu.org/install/specific.html#*-*-solaris2*> by setting CONFIG_SHELL to /bin/ksh before configure;make bootstrap, they wouldn't have such insane build times. I bet it cuts the 48 hours to single digits. What I don't get is, why isn't autoconf setting CONFIG_SHELL to something sane and re-exec-ing? I heard rumor that 2.59 was supposed to do that automagically. --Kaveh -- Kaveh R. Ghazi [EMAIL PROTECTED]
