What about just removing ksh completely from your system, and creating a symbolic link called ksh to point to the bash shell? Would this work, or would it break your system? Keith In theory, theory and practice are the same; In practice they are not. On Mon, 6 Mar 2006, Peter Eckel wrote: > To: users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > From: Peter Eckel <Lists@xxxxxxxxxxxx> > Subject: [users@httpd] Slow configure process on AIX > > Hi, > > I am just building Apache httpd 2.2.0 on AIX 5.2. > > During the first run of configure, I noticed that the > configuration process is extremely slow. The most sluggish > part is when configure tries to figure out which version > of the Berkeley DB is to be used. The tests literally take > forever. > > This reminded me of a similar problem I had during the > build of gcc on the same system. So I tried the same > remedy, and it works well - configure time is down to a > fraction of what it was before. The workaround is quite > simple: Install bash and make configure use it as its > shell: > > --- export CONFIG_SHELL=/usr/local/bin/bash (or wherever > your bash is located) ./configure --- > > The reason, as far as I remember, is thet ksh creates lots > of temp files which it has to clean up afterwards. > > Hope this helps someone, > > Peter. --------------------------------------------------------------------- The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx " from the digest: users-digest-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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