compiling gcj

[Andrew Haley]

Dachuan Yu writes:
 > When I build gcj for the first time, I follow the
 > instructions roughly as follows:
 > $ ../gcc/configure ...
 > $ make bootstrap
 > $ make
 > $ make install
 > 
 > If I make a little change and want to recompile it,
 > do I have to follow all the steps above?

No.  Just do a 'make'.  You can test in place, but it's sometimes
easier to 'make install'.

 > Sometimes bootstrap complains that some object files (of the files
 > that I changed) are different. What does that mean?

It might mean the compiler is broken.

But really, you don't have to beetstrap every time you make a change.

Andrew.