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compiling gcj
- To: Dachuan Yu <dachuan dot yu at yale dot edu>
- Subject: compiling gcj
- From: Andrew Haley <aph at cambridge dot redhat dot com>
- Date: Thu, 4 Oct 2001 17:44:25 +0100 (BST)
- Cc: java at gcc dot gnu dot org
- References: <3BBC8B3B.2607B8F6@yale.edu>
Dachuan Yu writes:
> When I build gcj for the first time, I follow the
> instructions roughly as follows:
> $ ../gcc/configure ...
> $ make bootstrap
> $ make
> $ make install
>
> If I make a little change and want to recompile it,
> do I have to follow all the steps above?
No. Just do a 'make'. You can test in place, but it's sometimes
easier to 'make install'.
> Sometimes bootstrap complains that some object files (of the files
> that I changed) are different. What does that mean?
It might mean the compiler is broken.
But really, you don't have to beetstrap every time you make a change.
Andrew.