Path: utzoo!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!munnari.oz.au!yoyo.aarnet.edu.au!sirius.ucs.adelaide.edu.au!chook.ua.oz From: john@chook.ua.oz (John Warburton) Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix Subject: Re: BASH and GCC Message-ID: <2547@sirius.ucs.adelaide.edu.au> Date: 5 Mar 91 06:11:34 GMT References: <1274@dkunix9.dk.oracle.com> Sender: news@ucs.adelaide.edu.au Distribution: comp.unix.aix Lines: 30 Nntp-Posting-Host: chook.ua.oz.au From article <1274@dkunix9.dk.oracle.com>, by bengsig@dk.oracle.com (Bjorn Engsig): > Article by benedict@chaos.utexas.edu (Thomas Benedict) says: > |Has anyone gotten BASH or GCC to compile on an RS6000 running AIX? > |I'm compiling software for a new machine, and have never used an > |RS6000, so I don't know what kind of tweaking it needs. > Did you consicer using Korn Shell (ksh) and its own C compiler xlc? Ksh has > the same history mechanism bash has, and xlc is a pretty good ANSI C compiler. I would think that if people wanted a good shell across a number of different environments, then BASH would be the answer. Also there are a few more options to BASH than ksh can poke a stick at! > If anybody has gcc running, does it produce better code (in any way) than > xlc -O? Well that is rather amusing in its own right. We have been told (in Australia) that the optimiser for the compiler does not work (hence the OS is not optimised code), so the beauty of gcc is made even better as it would most probably be the only optimising compiler for the RS6000. > -- > Bjorn Engsig, ORACLE Corporation, E-mail: bengsig@oracle.com, bengsig@oracle.nl John Warburton [these opinions are my own and are in no way connected with the Dept of computer science, Adelaide Uni.] John Warburton Phone : +61 8 228 5583 Department of Computer Science Telex : UNIVAD AA89141 University of Adelaide Fax : +61 8 223 1206 GPO Box 498 Adelaide SA 5001 ACSnet : john@cs.ua.oz