From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Joe Buck To: hjl@lucon.org (H.J. Lu) Cc: egcs@cygnus.com Subject: Re: A bootstrap-ultralean patch Date: Sat, 17 Jan 1998 22:30:00 -0000 Message-id: <199801180000.QAA20762@atrus.synopsys.com> References: X-SW-Source: 1998-01/msg00570.html > I made this patch to allow > > # make bootstrap-ultralean > > which only builds the C compiler for stage 1. It saves both CPU > time and disk space. The problem with this is that the resulting binary will differ from the binary produced by a normal bootstrap. It would be particularly troublesome if you (or anyone else) were ever to distribute a binary release of a gcc produced by this method, resulting possibly in bug reports that cannot be duplicated. At least do stage 2 (the only purpose for stage 3 is the check).