what should bootstrap *really* do?

[Mike Stump]

> To: Hans-Peter Nilsson <hans-peter.nilsson@axis.com>
> From: Alexandre Oliva <aoliva@redhat.com>
> Date: 14 Nov 2000 16:16:17 -0200

> I already find it bad enough that the default rule is not the one we
> recommend for users.

We need two things in the tree.  One, we need a top level Makefile
that has in it:

all:
    configure && make all

all bootstrap:
    configure && make bootstrap

and we need for the recommended way to build be the default.  If what
we recommend is complex, then autoconf type mechanisms should be used
to make it simple.

The first has been on my list for the past decade or so, and the
second, for the past, oh, what's it been, many many years.  The first
lets us return to the existing net standard for software that has been
around for 15+ years. The second is just obvious.

Think of all the people that ask, how do you build gcc.  The answer
needs to be `make'.