Re: GCC 4.1: Buildable on GHz machines only?

[Mark Mitchell <mark at codesourcery dot com>]

Matt Thomas wrote:

> Alas, the --disable-checking and STAGE1_CFLAGS="-O2 -g" (which I was
> already doing) only decreased the bootstrap time by 10%.  By far, the
> longest bit of the bootstrap is building libjava.

Building libjava takes forever on any platform, relative to the rest of 
the compiler build.  That's why I often disable it, especially since I 
don't use Java very much, and gcj even less often than Java in general. 
 Do you really *need* gcj on these embedded platforms?

Also, I don't really think that bootstrapping GCC directly on target 
hardware is very useful -- except for testing GCC.  I'd build GCC on 
some fast workstation, even if I eventually wanted it to run native on 
the target.

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