Makefile change to restart bootstraps

Mark Mitchell mark@codesourcery.com
Sun Nov 12 17:52:00 GMT 2000


>>>>> "Richard" == Richard Kenner <kenner@vlsi1.ultra.nyu.edu> writes:

    Richard> What I'm confused about is when you'd want to do that
    Richard> short of a hardware failure or similar.  Normally when a
    Richard> bootstrap fails, you back up, fix the problem and restart
    Richard> from the beginning.  That seems the normal operating
    Richard> mode, so having the other one seemed strange to me and
    Richard> still does.

I agree.  I don't think restarting bootstraps is likely to work very
often.

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