Re: Bison 2.3

[Ralf Wildenhues]

* Paul Eggert wrote on Wed, Jun 07, 2006 at 08:27:17PM CEST:
> "H.Merijn Brand" <address@hidden> 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