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Re: 3.2 PATCH: Fully support parallel gnat1/gnatbind builds
- From: dewar at gnat dot com (Robert Dewar)
- To: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org, kaih at khms dot westfalen dot de
- Date: Tue, 4 Jun 2002 08:15:25 -0400 (EDT)
- Subject: Re: 3.2 PATCH: Fully support parallel gnat1/gnatbind builds
> Suppose you have an emulator that is extremely portable, and has enough
> support to run gcc, and configure, and make, and whatever else is needed.
> (Maybe even one of the existing emulators qualifies?) And hopefully, it's
> also not extremely slow.
We of course examined this approach years ago, and it certainly
is practical. We thought that probably MIPS would be the best
way to go.
But in practice we discovered that it's easy enough to build
cross-compilers with GCC, and in practice the fact that there is
no "native" bootstrap path for a new machine has not proved to
be a problem in practice.