From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 16526 invoked by alias); 9 Jun 2004 04:00:18 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gcc-patches-help@gcc.gnu.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: Sender: gcc-patches-owner@gcc.gnu.org Received: (qmail 16518 invoked from network); 9 Jun 2004 04:00:17 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO nevyn.them.org) (66.93.172.17) by sourceware.org with SMTP; 9 Jun 2004 04:00:17 -0000 Received: from drow by nevyn.them.org with local (Exim 4.34 #1 (Debian)) id 1BXuG7-0007N5-0U; Wed, 09 Jun 2004 00:00:15 -0400 Date: Wed, 09 Jun 2004 05:41:00 -0000 From: Daniel Jacobowitz To: Nathanael Nerode Cc: Paolo Bonzini , gcc-patches@gcc.gnu.org Subject: Re: [toplevel bootstrap PATCH] Add profiledbootstrap Message-ID: <20040609040014.GA28274@nevyn.them.org> Mail-Followup-To: Nathanael Nerode , Paolo Bonzini , gcc-patches@gcc.gnu.org References: <40BEEB10.6010903@gnu.org> <40C67425.4000001@twcny.rr.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <40C67425.4000001@twcny.rr.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.5.1+cvs20040105i X-SW-Source: 2004-06/txt/msg00488.txt.bz2 On Tue, Jun 08, 2004 at 10:21:25PM -0400, Nathanael Nerode wrote: > Paolo Bonzini wrote: > >This patch adds toplevel profiledbootstrap. > > > >Since this makes stage1 have multiple descendants, I had to abandon > >the prev/next scheme to link bootstrap-stages. > > > >Instead, I either specify dependancies separately or use double-colon > >rules, > The top level isn't allowed to use GNU make, IIRC -- aren't double-colon > rules a GNU makeism? :-P Or are they portable? > > (And isn't this a nightmare? Thanks for your work.) Even if they are a GNU makeism, the question is whether they'll cause parse errors in other Make implementations - the bootstrap rules belong to GCC. The GNU make manual does not list them as an extension, so I assume they are at least a little portable... -- Daniel Jacobowitz