libcpp built by host compiler?

Daniel Jacobowitz drow@false.org
Mon Oct 25 14:52:00 GMT 2004


On Mon, Oct 25, 2004 at 01:28:22AM -0500, Aaron W. LaFramboise wrote:
> While investigating wrong-code PR gcc/18139
> <http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=18139>, I noticed that,
> during a normal bootstrap, libcpp is built by the host compiler, but
> never re-built by the bootstrapped compilers.  This results in the
> libcpp portion of the final gcc executables being compiled by the host
> compiler rather than by the bootstrapped compiler.
> 
> Isn't all of GCC supposed to be bootstrapped, including libcpp?

Yes... this is a temporary loss, between the separation of libcpp and
top-level bootstrap.  Try --enable-bootstrap and see if that works
better?

Ah, I see Paolo's already suggested that in the bug log.

-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz



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