Building without bootstrapping

Paul Brook paul@codesourcery.com
Sun Mar 18 22:11:00 GMT 2007


> How can I get the build scripts to use the precompiled gcc throughout
> the build process ?

Short answer is you can't. The newly build gcc is always used to build the 
target libraries[1].

Paul

[1] Except when building a Canadian cross, in which case you're expected to 
have a build->target cross compiler available. Bad Things will probably 
happen if this doesn't match the compiler being built.



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