Building binutils "bootstrap"-wise
Nick Clifton
nickc@cambridge.redhat.com
Fri Mar 1 01:12:00 GMT 2002
Hi Christian,
> I would like to discuss the idea of building the binutils suite
> using a "bootstrap" approach similar to gcc's.
>
> The idea is to reduce the impact that the system-installed binutils
> has on the to-build binutils executables and friends and thus its
> test results. However, this means longer compilation time to build
> the binutils suite.
Hmm - Well there is certainly no reason why bootstrapping targets
could not be included in the makefiles. I guess it is a question of
whether people would actually use them when testing their patches.
Building binutils at the moment is a relatively quick process.
(Compared to building gcc say). So I doubt if the extra time required
to run bootstrap target would be a great deterrent.
Note that the linker testsuite already has a small set of bootstrap
tests (ld/testsuite/ld-bootstrap).
Cheers
Nick
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