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Re: cannot compile
On Jan 30, 2001, Bill Priest <bpriest@comspacecorp.com> wrote:
> The installation instructions tell you to use a separate build
> directory, and to run `make bootstrap'.
> Since we see this type of problem quite frequently
> (on gcc-bugs ml); would patches be accepted that change
> the initial target of the top level makefile to issue a
> warning message that the correct command is "make bootstrap"
> in a directory other than the top level?
Probably not. The top-level Makefile is shared with other projects,
for which `make bootstrap' is not relevant.
Besides, there are many cases in which `make bootstrap' is not the
right thing for GCC either. For example, you don't want to bootstrap
if you're building a cross compiler.
Here's an idea: at the end of configure, if GCC is going to be built
*and* it's not a cross-compiler, print a warning message suggesting
the user to use `make bootstrap' or `bootstrap-lean' instead of `make'
or `make all'.
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