Greg Schafer wrote:
In summary, I don't agree. The LFS build is already slow as molasses and now you want to make it even slower. No offence to Ryan's very good technical skills, but already on numerous occasions his sledgehammer techniques have been proven without a doubt to be genuine overkill. Does
I'm not voicing my opinion one way or the other here... not just yet. I just brought this to the list's attention for comment.
However, I'd just like to say that, to me, a 'sledgehammer technique' would be one that bashes the toolchain into submission - forcing it to do something it was not designed to do. I would think that better applies to all the hacks we add into the build. Telling gcc to make sure it's building itself correctly and purely, using a method for its stated purpose and freely provided by upstream hardly seems a 'sledgehammer technique.'
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