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Re: what should bootstrap *really* do?
- To: "Alexandre Oliva" <aoliva at redhat dot com>,"Hans-Peter Nilsson" <hans-peter dot nilsson at axis dot com>
- Subject: Re: what should bootstrap *really* do?
- From: "Geert Bosch" <bosch at gnat dot com>
- Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2000 14:05:11 -0500
- Cc: "gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org" <gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org>,"kenner at vlsi1 dot ultra dot nyu dot edu" <kenner at vlsi1 dot ultra dot nyu dot edu>
- Reply-To: "Geert Bosch" <bosch at gnat dot com>
On 14 Nov 2000 16:16:17 -0200, Alexandre Oliva wrote:
I already find it bad enough that the default rule is not the one we
recommend for users. IMHO, adding more complexity to that is a bad
idea. I'd rather keep `bootstrap' simple for end users (i.e., have it
proceed from the point in which it stopped, for whatever reason) and
create alternate rules for developers.
If "make bootstrap" is supposed to be simple and safe, we should always
do a complete bootstrap and not try to resume an old one which is bound
to lead to nasty hard-to-reproduce problems. Indeed we can use alternate
rules for developers for whom the reduced recompilations might outweigh
the extra complexity.