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Re: bootstrapping and bubblestrapping
- From: Paul Brook <paul at codesourcery dot com>
- To: fortran at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Cc: Paul Thomas <paulthomas2 at wanadoo dot fr>
- Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2005 13:02:43 +0000
- Subject: Re: bootstrapping and bubblestrapping
- Organization: CodeSourcery
- References: <41FCD831.6050307@wanadoo.fr>
On Sunday 30 January 2005 12:50, Paul Thomas wrote:
> I notice that a number of folk are bubblestrapping or even bootstrapping
> changes to gfortran. Is this necessary? Surely, once you have a
> bootstrapped C compiler, fortran can be built using make?
In short, No.
The main difference is that bootstrap will use -Werror, whereas plain make may
not. You should be careful to inspect the build output to ensure you have not
introduced new warnings.
Quoting http://gcc.gnu.org/contribute.html:
"If your change is to a front end other than the C or C++ [...] You need not
bootstrap, or test other languages [...]"
Paul