-Bprefix(2)

[Jonathan Wakely]

On 25 April 2011 07:36, ali hagigat <hagigatali@gmail.com> wrote:
> 3.14 Options for Directory Search
> -Bprefix
> As a special kludge, if the path provided by ‘-B’ is ‘[dir/]stageN /’, where N
> is a number in the range 0 to 9, then it will be replaced by ‘[dir/]include’.
> This is to help with boot-strapping the compiler.
> ----------------------------------
> What does it mean, "boot-strapping the compiler"? I do not understand.
>

http://gcc.gnu.org/install/build.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bootstrapping_(compilers)