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

[Alexandre Oliva]

On Jan 16, 2006, kenner@vlsi1.ultra.nyu.edu (Richard Kenner) wrote:

>      What it used to be "make" and "make bootstrap" are (and will be)
>     "./configure --disable-bootstrap && make" and "./configure && make".

> Rerunning configure is a pain!  It's never just "./configure", but
> has the source directory plus any options.

./config.status --recheck will show you exactly what it is.  If you
find that too much trouble, try this:

sed -n '/^#.*\/configure/ s,^#,,p' config.status | sh

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