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Re: Status and rationale for toplevel bootstrap (was Re: Example of debugging GCC with toplevel bootstrap)
- From: Eric Botcazou <ebotcazou at libertysurf dot fr>
- To: Richard Kenner <kenner at vlsi1 dot ultra dot nyu dot edu>
- Cc: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org, rasky at develer dot com
- Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2006 15:18:04 +0100
- Subject: Re: Status and rationale for toplevel bootstrap (was Re: Example of debugging GCC with toplevel bootstrap)
- References: <10601161403.AA09234@vlsi1.ultra.nyu.edu>
> Then I'm confused: I thought the whole point of --disable-bootstrap is
> to keep the old mechanism instead of getting the new one.
Not quite. You can do an old-style build and an old-style bootstrap from the
*toplevel* directory with --disable-bootstrap by issuing "make" and "make
bootstrap" respectively, that's all (and sufficient as far as I'm concerned).
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Eric Botcazou