On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 2:36 PM, David Edelsohn <dje....@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 5:43 AM, Jonathan Wakely <jwakely....@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> Paolo has committed a change to that code, does it help the AIX bootstrap >> issue? > > Paolo's patch gets me past the debug.cc issue. > > Using C++ on AIX will greatly increase the bootstrap time on AIX > because configure is much slower, even using Bash instead of AIX Ksh. > > And, as this libstdc++ typo demonstrates, using C++ with the > development version of libstdc++ makes the bootstrap process more > fragile because bootstrap now relies on a complex, additional codebase > that is not stable.
Which is good as it increases testing coverage. We probably would have missed this bug completely if you wouldn't have notice it. Richard.
