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Re: -B${prefix} during bootstrap
- To: Phil Edwards <pedwards at disaster dot jaj dot com>
- Subject: Re: -B${prefix} during bootstrap
- From: Jeffrey A Law <law at cygnus dot com>
- Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2000 18:41:34 -0600
- cc: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Reply-To: law at cygnus dot com
In message <20000921150050.A11167@disaster.jaj.com>you write:
> Something that's bothered me for years that I'm just now asking...
>
> Why is -B$prefix passed to the stage1 compiler when building the stage2
> compiler? If $prefix isn't there yet (normal when bootstrapping, I would
> think), then what's the point?
Sometimes $prefix is there and sometimes it has programs we want to use
during the bootstrapping process.
jeff