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Re: what should bootstrap *really* do?
- To: aoliva at redhat dot com
- Subject: Re: what should bootstrap *really* do?
- From: kenner at vlsi1 dot ultra dot nyu dot edu (Richard Kenner)
- Date: Tue, 14 Nov 00 06:30:00 EST
- Cc: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
Thinking of someone whose build machine crashes part-way through the
build, runs out of disk space, needs to tweak a configuration
parameter here or there, I think `make bootstrap' should proceed from
the stage in which the previous build stopped, not from stage1.
I don't. Who knows how much havoc that running out of disk space or
"tweaked" parameter has or will cause? Developers may be able to accurately
determine that, but users can't.
If *anything* goes wrong, they should be forced to start over again so
they can have confidence in the result.