From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Joe Buck <jbuck@synopsys.com>
To: mrs@wrs.com (Mike Stump)
Cc: egcs@cygnus.com (egcs team)
Subject: Re: Building EGCS from scratch
Date: Tue, 09 Sep 1997 13:30:00 -0000
Message-id: <199709092029.NAA28648@atrus.synopsys.com>
References: <199709091837.LAA18795@kankakee.wrs.com>
X-SW-Source: 1997-09/msg00351.html

> > It seems that EGCS is sorely missing documentation on what needs to be built
> > for <foo> OS, and in what order.

Mike Stump writes:
> It isn't missing, though some of the simplicity seems to have been
> obscured over the years.  It is configure; make; make install, that's
> about it, and that is the order.

That procedure doesn't provide a correctly bootstrapped gcc at present for
egcs.  If you don't bootstrap, then the gcc binary depends on too many
variables, which will translate into hard-to-reproduce bugs.

Now, if a top-level make did a three-stage build and then built all the
other tools with the newly bootstrapped gcc, then we'd have the simplicity
you speak of.