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Re: Building EGCS from scratch
- To: mrs at wrs dot com (Mike Stump)
- Subject: Re: Building EGCS from scratch
- From: Joe Buck <jbuck at synopsys dot com>
- Date: Tue, 9 Sep 97 13:29:46 PDT
- Cc: egcs at cygnus dot com (egcs team)
> > It seems that EGCS is sorely missing documentation on what needs to be built
> > for <foo> OS, and in what order.
Mike Stump writes:
> It isn't missing, though some of the simplicity seems to have been
> obscured over the years. It is configure; make; make install, that's
> about it, and that is the order.
That procedure doesn't provide a correctly bootstrapped gcc at present for
egcs. If you don't bootstrap, then the gcc binary depends on too many
variables, which will translate into hard-to-reproduce bugs.
Now, if a top-level make did a three-stage build and then built all the
other tools with the newly bootstrapped gcc, then we'd have the simplicity
you speak of.