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



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