Re: solaris bootstrap failure using cc for stage1, stab.h not found...

["Kaveh R. Ghazi" <ghazi at caip dot rutgers dot edu>]

 > From: Jeffrey A Law <law@cygnus.com>
 >  
 >   In message <199811171837.NAA27637@caip.rutgers.edu>you write:
 >   >  >         Good point.  And we only need to rerun configure in the gcc
 >   >  > directory, not anywhere else.  It might not be that big of a job, if the
 >   >  > consensus is we should do this. 
 >   >  >                 --Kaveh
 >   > 
 >   >     Here's a patch to implement this.  It solves the Solaris bootstrap
 >   > problem I reported in http://www.cygnus.com/ml/egcs-bugs/1998-Nov/0469.html
 >   > .
 >   > Shall I install it?
 >   > 
 >   >             --Kaveh
 >   > 
 >   > 
 >   > Tue Nov 17 13:26:55 1998  Kaveh R. Ghazi  <ghazi@caip.rutgers.edu>
 >   > 
 >   >     * Makefile.in (reconfigure): New target to rerun configure using
 >   >     the stage1 generated compiler.
 >   >     (bootstrap): Run `$(MAKE) reconfigure' right after creating the
 >   >     stage1 directory, but before building stage2.
 > 
 > This is going to make life a living hell on those of us who have to
 > debug codegen bugs in 3-stage bootstraps.  We really need the ability
 > to mix and match .o files between stages and to be able to use *any*
 > suitable host compiler during any stage when tracking down staged
 > codegen problems.
 >  
 > I'd really prefer not to go down the road of rerunning configure.  I
 > just do not think it's really necessary and it just makes are life
 > much more difficult than it needs to be.
 >  
 > jeff


	Er, we solved the underlying problem 9 months ago using a
different patch.  Took me a minute, but I found it.

http://www.cygnus.com/ml/egcs-patches/1998-Dec/0132.html

As for rejecting the original approach, fine with me. :-)

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