bootstrapping and bubblestrapping

[Paul Brook]

On Sunday 30 January 2005 12:50, Paul Thomas wrote:
> I notice that a number of folk are bubblestrapping or even bootstrapping
> changes to gfortran.  Is this necessary?  Surely, once you have a
> bootstrapped C compiler, fortran can be built using make?

In short, No.

The main difference is that bootstrap will use -Werror, whereas plain make may 
not. You should be careful to inspect the build output to ensure you have not 
introduced new warnings.

Quoting http://gcc.gnu.org/contribute.html:

"If your change is to a front end other than the C or C++ [...] You need not 
bootstrap, or test other languages [...]"

Paul