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Re: Status and rationale for toplevel bootstrap (was Re: Example of debugging GCC with toplevel bootstrap)
- From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow at false dot org>
- To: Richard Kenner <kenner at vlsi1 dot ultra dot nyu dot edu>
- Cc: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2006 09:43:45 -0500
- Subject: Re: Status and rationale for toplevel bootstrap (was Re: Example of debugging GCC with toplevel bootstrap)
- References: <10601161448.AA09890@vlsi1.ultra.nyu.edu>
On Mon, Jan 16, 2006 at 09:48:14AM -0500, Richard Kenner wrote:
> > Why would somebody ever want to *disable* it? If you don't want to
> > bootstrap, you just don't *do* it!
>
> Oh come on. This is semantics. --disable-bootstrap is the equivalent
> of not doing it.
>
> I don't follow. If I don't want to bootstrap, I won't say "make bootstrap".
> Why do I need a configure option to *prevent* me from saying that?
Because other rules in the toplevel makefile need to know whether they
are being used as part of a bootstrap or not.
I'm not going to respond to the rest. We're going around in circles
and not making the slightest forward progress.
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Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery