building gcj on OS X (also AWT)

[John Gabriele]

On May 21, 2004, at 9:52 AM, Bryce McKinlay wrote:

> John Gabriele wrote:
>
>> Thanks for the explanations Andrew. I updated the article,
>> submitted it to osnews, and they put up a link to it! :)
>> http://www.osnews.com/index.php
>
>
> Nice! Some things I could suggest to speed up that 4 hour build time:
>
> 1. try "make" instead of "make bootstrap". Since Apple uses gcc 3.3, 
> the native compiler should be able to build gcc 3.4 without needing a 
> full bootstrap cycle.

I thought the already-installed gcc 3.3 *was* the compiler that
was building 3.4 for me... Could be please explain roughly how this
"bootstrapping" works?


> 2. try "--disable-static" on your configure command. This will only 
> build dynamic (dylib) libraries and not static (.a). If you dont need 
> the static libraries, it should halve your build time.
>
> Regards
>
> Bryce
>

Great. Thanks for the tip. :)