>>>>> Geoffrey Keating writes: Geoff> The only work involved, assuming you already have a bootstrapped tree, Geoff> would be to apply the patch and run 'make quickstrap' or even 'make Geoff> gnucompare'; and possibly a single 'cmp' command. This should take Geoff> about 1 minute.
make quickstrap ; make gnucompare succeeds with the patch on powerpc-ibm-aix5.2.0.0. David