Re: building gcj on OS X (also AWT)

[Ranjit Mathew <rmathew at gmail dot com>]

Bryce McKinlay wrote:
[...]
> "make bootstrap" does something like this: first it builds the C 
> compiler using the system compiler, then rebuilds itself using the 
> freshly built compiler. Then it does a sanity check to see if the output 
> of itself built with the system compiler is the same as itself built 
> with itself. Finally it builds the other front ends and the libraries 
> using iself built with itself.

Minor nit:

There is another stage (stage 3) where the second stage compiler
is used to build the compiler yet again - the comparison that you
talk of is done between object files from stage 2 and stage 3 - it
is quite likely that stage 1 and stage 2 objects *will* differ.

  http://gcc.gnu.org/install/build.html

Ranjit.

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