Re: Severe performance problem and proposed solution

Zack Weinberg wrote: > > It's regularly reported to the GCC list that libstdc++'s configure > script takes several hours to execute on certain proprietary Unixes, [[...]] > It is trivial to write a short C program that [[...]] > I see only two problems with this approach: [[...]] > Thoughts? Is

Re: Severe performance problem and proposed solution

Zack Weinberg writes: > It's regularly reported to the GCC list that libstdc++'s configure > script takes several hours to execute on certain proprietary Unixes, > such as alpha-dec-osf4*. This is due to a bug in the shell. Some > versions of the Bourne shell implement here documents by writing

Re: Severe performance problem and proposed solution

> From: Peter Eisentraut <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Sun, 24 Feb 2002 11:50:24 -0500 (EST) > > Autoconf 2.53 will be able to automatically replace a different, more > capable shell if the standard shell doesn't support a certain feature. > I'm not sure how exactly you would test for the bug you a