make target faster than bootstrap

Martin v. Loewis martin@loewis.home.cs.tu-berlin.de
Sun Jun 18 10:33:00 GMT 2000


> Each time I've done `cvs update` followed by the configure, and then
> make bootstrap, the bootstrap target takes several hours to
> complete.  Is there any faster target.

Just invoke make without any options; that will only build stage1,
which is normally sufficient (if you trust your system compiler).

On a related note: you probably should configure with
--enable-languages=c++, so fortran, java, chill and objc won't be
built.

Regards,
Martin



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