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Re: Bootstrapping

Alfred Minarik <a8601248@unet.univie.ac.at> writes:

| Benjamin Kosnik wrote:
| > 
| > > Unfortunately, the c++ compiler cannot link executables until a c++
| > > library is installed. This is a chicken and egg problem.
| > 
| > I hadn't really thought about this problem, but I suppose you've got a
| > point.
| > 
| 
| In the past I used to use
| 
| CFLAGE='[...] ' \ 
| CXXFLAGS='[...] -nodefaultlibs -lgcc -lc' \ 
| $LIBSRC_/configure --prefix=$INSTDIR_
| 
| this is add -nodefaultlibs -lgcc -lc to CXXFLAGS
| at libstdc++v3 configure time, after I had built egcs with [...].

We already use similar options in mknumeric_limits to compile
src/gen-num-limits.cc 

-- Gaby
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