From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: hjl@lucon.org (H.J. Lu) To: jbuck@synopsys.com (Joe Buck) Cc: egcs@cygnus.com Subject: Re: A bootstrap-ultralean patch Date: Mon, 19 Jan 1998 02:07:00 -0000 Message-id: References: <199801180000.QAA20762@atrus.synopsys.com> X-SW-Source: 1998-01/msg00620.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 I think "will" is a strong word. ultralean still compares the C part. Someone like me is willing to take the risk of not comparing the C++, Objc and Fortran parts. > 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). -- H.J. Lu (hjl@gnu.org)