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Re: quickstrap, et al, at the top level?

> The point of doing a bootstrap is that you get to discover whether or
> not the compiler is safe to install _before_ it gets installed...

Obviously I don't install it in /usr.  My trees usually have b1, i1,
b2, i2, b3 directories (i.e. I configure each build for a different
prefix, except the last which goes to /usr).  I usually build more
than just gcc (gas, ld, etc) and want to bootstrap test those also.
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