GCC 4.7.2 stage3 bootstrap error on RHEL6 : collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status

[Jonathan Wakely]

On 19 December 2012 17:19, Jonathan Wakely wrote:
> On 19 December 2012 16:58, Dennis Clarke wrote:
>>
>>> On 19 December 2012 04:32, Dennis Clarke wrote:
>>> >
>>> > That went very well and the compile took a nice long time, even on a
>>> quad core opteron :
>>> >
>>> > real 12255.97
>>> > user 10349.35
>>> > sys 1565.99
>>>
>>> Presumably this is without -jN?  Why would you want to do that?  The
>>> fact it's a quad-core is irrelevant if you only use one core.
>>
>> Depends on how much trust you place in -jX for X>1 and in my case, not much, yet.
>
> Why?

The reason for my question is that you keep mentioning the time it
takes to do a bootstrap or testsuite, which seems a bit pointless when
there's a proven way to speed it up that you're not using.  If you
care about the time use -j, but if you don't, why keep mentioning it?