Re: fts: make find *much* faster on dirent.d_type-challenged FS

[Matthew Woehlke]

Karl Berry wrote:
> In compiling the binaries for TeX Live, where we try to use fairly old
> compilers and systems, the only platform which had problems with
> decl-after-stmt was v5 of the IBM C compiler for AIX 4.3.  There are
> various reasons why the person who does those builds doesn't want to use
> gcc, but for GNU packages, it seems like we could reasonably ask people
> to use gcc instead of IBM C.

Have you built gcc on AIX 4.x? "Various reason" number one (it's a 
biggie) is that building gcc is a bit daunting and isn't exactly fast 
(or necessarily easy)...

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