Ken Moffat wrote: > I've long-since lost any lingering belief that 'upstream' _always_ > knows what is best, but my initial thought is that knowing the > toolchain lets gcc recreate itself is a good thing. But, I wonder > if it is ever likely to fail at pass 2 without general failures in > the next compile (i.e. does bootstrapping of itself highlight errors > more quickly ?)
Well, consider, gcc is compiled once, then that resultant gcc compiles the next stage, and then that one the final stage. If the *bootstrap* fails, ie, in stage2 or stage3, (especially stage2) then that should indicate that our toolchain can't produce a sane and working gcc. -- JH -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
