Example of debugging GCC with toplevel bootstrap

[Ian Lance Taylor]

Jason Merrill <jason@redhat.com> writes:

> 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?  There has to be an easier way to do that.
> My laptop builds stage1 reasonably fast, but a bootstrap takes several
> hours.

Configure with --disable-bootstrap.

That's what I do.

Ian