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Re: how to avoid bootstrapping?
- To: law at cygnus dot com
- Subject: Re: how to avoid bootstrapping?
- From: Patrik Hagglund <patha at ida dot liu dot se>
- Date: Mon, 08 Dec 1997 18:23:25 +0100
- cc: egcs at cygnus dot com
> > I just fetched egcs-1.0, but I can't find any instructions on how to
> > just _build_ the compiler. I don't want to perform any tests, and
> > that makes (as far as I can see) the bootstrapping process
> > unnecessary. I think the time I have to wait for the first build to
> > complete is more than enough.
> No, you still need to bootstrap the compiler.
>
>jeff
I don't see why. Do you mean that the Makefiles lack support for this,
or that there is something in egcs itself that have to be bootstrapped
to work properly? Can you elaborate?
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Patrik Hägglund, patha@ida.liu.se