[heads-up] disabling "../configure --disable-bootstrap && make bootstrap"

Paolo Bonzini paolo.bonzini@lu.unisi.ch
Sun Dec 31 13:23:00 GMT 2006


>> The problem is that last step: it takes a LONG time to build libjava,
>> for example.  If I make a change that I need to give a sanity check to,
>> I want to compile GCC with it, but not all the other additional code: that's
>> for a later state in the development/testing cycle.  Since building a stage
>> of GCC is about three times faster than "other target libraries", if there's
>> no way to suppress that, the time to do this test goes up by a factor of four.
> 
> Would you feel OK if there were a make target to do a bootstrap
> without building the other target libraries?  The change from today's
> bootstrap with --disable-bootstrap would be that it would build
> libiberty, libcpp, and friends at each stage, rather than only once.

There's one "make stage3-bubble".

Paolo



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