Re: gcc 4.1.1 on AIX 5.2

On Mon, 18 Dec 2006 06:26:55 UTC, "Ravindra"
<ravindra.rajaram@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:


If you have enough memory, it might speed up things if you create
a RAM disk, mount it and start the build process within this mount-
point. But beware not to try this on a production machine, the gcc
build need *lots* of space!

I have about 2 Gigs of memory!
Regards,

I've found that ./configure tends to hammer /tmp something rotten, no
doubt compiling small programlets and deleting them. I was able to
speed up configure a *lot* by creating a 64MB RAM disk for tmp.

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