how to avoid bootstrapping?

[Jeffrey A Law]

  In message < 199712081723.SAA03538@portofix.ida.liu.se >you write:
  > I don't see why. Do you mean that the Makefiles lack support for this,
  > or that there is something in egcs itself that have to be bootstrapped
  > to work properly? Can you elaborate?
Using make bootstrap is critical because:

	* The fortran compiler won't build with a non-gcc compiler.
	"make bootstrap" will deal with this.

	* It is important that the C++ runtime libraries get built
	with the egcs compiler, not the compiler used to build
	egcs.  Again, "make bootstrap" will deal with this.

	* "make bootstrap" is also critical because it provides some
	indication that the compiler is functional.


jeff