Example of debugging GCC with toplevel bootstrap

Marcin Dalecki martin@dalecki.de
Sat Jan 14 00:50:00 GMT 2006


On 2006-01-13, at 23:59, Richard Kenner wrote:

>     Remind me why it's a good idea to force me to mess with  
> bootstrapping
>     at all, when all I want is to build a copy of the compiler that  
> I can
>     use for debugging problems?

Well install.texi explains in full lenght the wonders of the bootstrap.
However looking in configure itself shows that it's possible to add
--enable-bootstrap=no, which will disable the self gratification of  
the build
process.



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