Status and rationale for toplevel bootstrap (was Re: Example of debugging GCC with toplevel bootstrap)

[Daniel Jacobowitz]

On Mon, Jan 16, 2006 at 09:48:14AM -0500, Richard Kenner wrote:
>     > Why would somebody ever want to *disable* it? If you don't want to
>     > bootstrap, you just don't *do* it!
> 
>     Oh come on.  This is semantics.  --disable-bootstrap is the equivalent
>     of not doing it.
> 
> I don't follow.  If I don't want to bootstrap, I won't say "make bootstrap".
> Why do I need a configure option to *prevent* me from saying that?

Because other rules in the toplevel makefile need to know whether they
are being used as part of a bootstrap or not.

I'm not going to respond to the rest.  We're going around in circles
and not making the slightest forward progress.

-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery