https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=114105

--- Comment #5 from Mark Millard <markmigm at gmail dot com> ---
(In reply to Andrew Pinski from comment #2)
> . . .
> >Part of the reason FreeBSD puts effort into making --disable-bootstrap work
> This should not be done unless you are building with GCC itself. The reason
> is only the C, C++ front-ends are supposed to be able to compile with a
> (non-GCC) C++11 compiler. So FreeBSD is doing it wrong anyways.

Thanks for that wording. I did not get that relationship from the wording
in the standard documentation that talks about --disable-bootstrap . It
might be good if that documentation did also have such wording.

I'll note that the FreeBSD lang/gcc* ports do not normally use
--disable-bootstrap .

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