Example of debugging GCC with toplevel bootstrap

Paolo Bonzini bonzini@gnu.org
Wed Jan 18 07:45:00 GMT 2006


Mike Stump wrote:
> On Jan 13, 2006, at 5:01 PM, Richard Kenner wrote:
> 
>>     Steven Bosscher wrote:
>>
>>> ...  you can use --disable-bootstrap and do a regular make, or is  there
>>> some reason why you can't do that?
> 
> 
>> I thought the point was that that option is temporary and will go  away.
> 
> 
> Over my dead body.  We will always have a nice simple easy way to do  
> development so that it is quick fast and easy.

As I said multiple times, *of course* bootstrapping will *never* be 
mandatory.  On the other hand, GCC-only bootstrapping (i.e. configuring 
with disabled bootstrap, and then typing "make bootstrap") will be deleted.

Paolo



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