On Sat, Jul 6, 2013 at 12:46 AM, Brian Dolbec <dol...@gentoo.org> wrote: > Yes, it does need to be rebuilt if key deps are updated. The gcc > produced in the stage1 is broken, so won't run to rebuild itself during > the stage2 run.
But we keep the old libs around via preserve_libs, and once stage1 is done we effectively throw the seed stage out.