"make bubblestrap" weirdness

[Ranjit Mathew]

On Wed, 12 Jan 2005 17:27:17 -0500, Kelley Cook <kcook@gcc.gnu.org> wrote:
> Kelley Cook wrote:
> 
> >> In recent CVS checkouts of GCC mainline, I have noticed a
> >> weird bootstrapping issue. The steps are:
> >>
> >>   1. make bootstrap
> >>   2. touch $GCC_SRC_DIR/gcc/java/check-init.c
> >>   3. make bubblestrap
> >>   4. touch $GCC_SRC_DIR/gcc/java/check-init.c
> >>   5. make bubblestrap
> >>
> >> In step #3, I see "genattrab" and other "gen*" programs
> >> running once again, while in #5 (and subsequent such
> >> iterations) they don't. I have seen this on two separate
> >> x86-Linux boxen.
> >
> >
> > It seems that you've discovered a regression from 3.4.  Unfortunately,
> > it likely is related to my moving the GCC build executables into a
> > build/ directory.
> >
> > Please create a new PR and feel free to assign it to me
> > <kcook@gcc.gnu.org>.
> >
> Please try this patch.
> 
> Bootstrapped and bubblestrapped on i686-pc-cygwin

Your patch didn't apply cleanly, so I had
to manually apply it. In any case, it did fix
the odd behaviour as far as I could make out.

Thanks,
Ranjit.

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