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Re: Newbie build question
- To: mrs at wrs dot com
- Subject: Re: Newbie build question
- From: craig at jcb-sc dot com
- Date: 6 Apr 1999 17:43:30 -0000
- Cc: egcs-bugs at egcs dot cygnus dot com, guinan at bluebutton dot com
- Cc: craig at jcb-sc dot com
- References: <199904061734.KAA25806@kankakee.wrs.com>
>> Date: Tue, 6 Apr 1999 10:57:54 -0400 (EDT)
>> From: Jamie Guinan <guinan@bluebutton.com>
>> To: egcs-bugs@egcs.cygnus.com
>
>> I'm experimenting with the egcs snapshots on an ARM Linux host. If
>> I modify a file such as gcc/config/arm/arm.c, is there a quicker way
>> to rebuild than "make bootstrap"?
>
>Yes. Build and install a recent egcs.
>
>>>From then on never do a bootstrap, just various forms of makes. For
>example, one favorite of mine is, `cd gcc && make cc1plus'. Simple,
>short sweet, always works for me.
>
>For non-development builds and for installs, one should clean and
>bootstrap as normal.
A slightly more general approach is `cd gcc && make bootstrap3', which
I use (in one form or another) quite often. It'll rebuild cc1, cc1plus,
f771, etc., as needed. (BTW, you do this from the *build*, not source,
directory.)
tq vm, (burley)