Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 25 Sep 1999 10:52:46 +0000 | From | "John Hayward-Warburton (Programming account)" <> | Subject | Re: Possible GCC contamination of Linux |
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"Richard B. Johnson" wrote:
> In the case of the 'C' compiler, any that is built on the system, you > build the compiler using the previous compiler, after all you haven't > built the new one yet. It generates its new libgcc, using the previous > compiler.
Erm... doesn't `make bootstrap' for GCC build the compiler once with the old compiler, build itself again from the new compiler, build itself a third time from the compiler just made, compare the results of the first and second compiler, then build the extra stuff (libstdc++ etc.)? JHW
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