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Re: GCC COMPILE OPTIONS
Please don't top-post.
Lalit Seth writes:
> I have experienced that GCC fails to compile with gmake but gets
> successfully compiled when gmake bootstrap-lean is used. Why so.
Probably because your system compiler is broken.
> This was on HPUX 11.11 for version 3.3.2
>
> On 11/8/06, Tim Prince <timothyprince@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> > Ian Lance Taylor wrote:
> > > "Lalit Seth" <sethlalitwo@gmail.com> writes:
> > >
> > >> I like to knw why we use "gmake bootstrap-lean" to compile GCC instead
> > >> of "gmake". How they are different and what behaviour changes are
> > >> there in 2 cases for GCC compiler.
> > >
> > > We have no idea why you do that.
> > >
> > > The difference is that during bootstrap-lean old stages are removed
> > > when they are no longer needed. That is, bootstrap-lean uses less
> > > disk space. There is no difference in the compiler.
> > >
> > I thought OP might be asking why it took so long for gcc build to
> > implement a default which should know when bootstrap is required. Only
> > the recent versions can build from scratch without explicit bootstrap
> > option.
> >