From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>
To: egcs@cygnus.com
Subject: Re: fixing the c++/f77 circular dependency
Date: Fri, 22 Aug 1997 08:36:15 -0000
Message-id: <9708220836.AA10708@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>
In-reply-to: rzqg1s3tolw.fsf@djlvig.dl.ac.uk
X-SW-Source: 1997-08/0285.html

Dave Love <d.love@dl.ac.uk> writes:

|>>>>>> "Doug" == Doug Evans <dje@cygnus.com> writes:
|>  Doug> You could add a --enable-lang=foo [or some such] option,
|>  Doug> so while LANGUAGES=x is gone, the ability to only build a few
|>  Doug> is not.

|> I'd vote for that sort of thing.

But LANGUAGES is still desirable for bootstrapping, because if you compile
with an inferior system compiler you only want to build the C compiler
with it, and them build the rest with the just built gcc.