From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 25068 invoked by alias); 8 Nov 2006 15:54:43 -0000 Received: (qmail 25060 invoked by uid 22791); 8 Nov 2006 15:54:43 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from smtp-out.google.com (HELO smtp-out.google.com) (216.239.45.12) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Wed, 08 Nov 2006 15:54:33 +0000 Received: from zps77.corp.google.com (zps77.corp.google.com [172.25.146.77]) by smtp-out.google.com with ESMTP id kA8FsSAl000454; Wed, 8 Nov 2006 07:54:28 -0800 Received: from smtp.corp.google.com (spacemonkey1.corp.google.com [192.168.120.115]) by zps77.corp.google.com with ESMTP id kA8Fs2w1024304 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT); Wed, 8 Nov 2006 07:54:03 -0800 Received: from dhcp-172-18-118-195.corp.google.com.google.com (176.sub-75-208-12.myvzw.com [75.208.12.176]) (authenticated bits=0) by smtp.corp.google.com (8.13.7/8.13.7) with ESMTP id kA8Frxgv032622 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT); Wed, 8 Nov 2006 07:54:02 -0800 To: "Lalit Seth" Cc: gcc-help@gcc.gnu.org Subject: Re: GCC COMPILE OPTIONS References: <13d245450611072329n502b17fdm60d984ce426f966a@mail.gmail.com> From: Ian Lance Taylor Date: Wed, 08 Nov 2006 15:54:00 -0000 In-Reply-To: <13d245450611072329n502b17fdm60d984ce426f966a@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact gcc-help-help@gcc.gnu.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: Sender: gcc-help-owner@gcc.gnu.org X-SW-Source: 2006-11/txt/msg00136.txt.bz2 "Lalit Seth" writes: > I like to knw why we use "gmake bootstrap-lean" to compile GCC instead > of "gmake". How they are different and what behaviour changes are > there in 2 cases for GCC compiler. We have no idea why you do that. The difference is that during bootstrap-lean old stages are removed when they are no longer needed. That is, bootstrap-lean uses less disk space. There is no difference in the compiler. Ian