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Re: how to avoid bootstrapping?
- To: Patrik Hagglund <patha at ida dot liu dot se>
- Subject: Re: how to avoid bootstrapping?
- From: Jeffrey A Law <law at cygnus dot com>
- Date: Mon, 08 Dec 1997 10:32:22 -0700
- cc: egcs at cygnus dot com
- Reply-To: law at cygnus dot com
In message <199712081723.SAA03538@portofix.ida.liu.se>you write:
> 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?
Using make bootstrap is critical because:
* The fortran compiler won't build with a non-gcc compiler.
"make bootstrap" will deal with this.
* It is important that the C++ runtime libraries get built
with the egcs compiler, not the compiler used to build
egcs. Again, "make bootstrap" will deal with this.
* "make bootstrap" is also critical because it provides some
indication that the compiler is functional.
jeff