970924 snapshot
Jeffrey A Law
law@cygnus.com
Sun Sep 28 00:56:00 GMT 1997
In message < 9709262002.AA00947@negril.msrce.howard.edu >you write:
> before the make bootstrap died. MY GOD! how much disk space is needed
> for a complete bootstrap build? I thought for sure 168MB would be
> enough, but I was wrong.
It's big. A lot of that is debug symbols -- the compiler tries
to bootstrap itself with -O2 -g. The bootstrap itself builds
the compiler 3 times and keeps all the intermediate files.
I suspect that accounts for most of the space. The new dwarf
stuff might contribute too.
I'll happily install a toplevel target which tries to clean
up after itself if someone submits it.
jeff
More information about the Gcc
mailing list