GCC COMPILE OPTIONS

Ian Lance Taylor iant@google.com
Wed Nov 8 15:54:00 GMT 2006


"Lalit Seth" <sethlalitwo@gmail.com> writes:

> I like to knw why we use "gmake bootstrap-lean" to compile GCC instead
> of "gmake". How they are different and what behaviour changes are
> there in 2 cases for GCC compiler.

We have no idea why you do that.

The difference is that during bootstrap-lean old stages are removed
when they are no longer needed.  That is, bootstrap-lean uses less
disk space.  There is no difference in the compiler.

Ian



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