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Re: At last: the bool problem seems to be due to omitted dependencyfrom make check*
On 01-Mar-2003, Joseph S. Myers <jsm28 at cam dot ac dot uk> wrote:
> On Sat, 1 Mar 2003, Tim Josling wrote:
>
> > The problem I had in this case was that the system cc didn't like -fstats so
> > it failed. To me, the stdbool only seems to solve part of the problem, which
> > is that suddenly we are building part of the compiler with a wrong compiler.
> > How would this work with C++?
>
> Both problems should be solved, but the dependency one is intrinsically
> hard to solve. After all, if you change toplev.c, it should first rebuild
> to stage1 toplev.o with the bootstrap compiler, then relink the stage1
> compiler, then rebuild stage2 and stage3, if the dependencies are properly
> correct.
Isn't that what "make bubblestrap" is for?
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