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Re: PATCH RFC: Remove fork from collect2
- From: Zack Weinberg <zack at codesourcery dot com>
- To: Dale Johannesen <dalej at apple dot com>
- Cc: Ian Lance Taylor <ian at wasabisystems dot com>, Andrew Pinski <apinski at apple dot com>, "gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org list" <gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org>, Caroline Tice <ctice at apple dot com>
- Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2004 14:57:38 -0800
- Subject: Re: PATCH RFC: Remove fork from collect2
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Dale Johannesen <dalej@apple.com> writes:
> What's wrong with building libiberty on each pass through the bootstrap?
> That would solve the general problem, and that library builds very
> quickly.
It is a desirable thing to do which happens to be very hard.
Nathanael Nerode has been working on it for some time (look for
"top-level bootstrap" patches).
zw