> So the previous system was easy? IMO it's just that it's been tested for > 15 years. Personally it took me a lot of time to understand the working of > bubblestrap, stage*_copy, stage*_build, and so on
The previous "make" was easy. Now even "make" is too much intricate for common mortals. > The point is that you have to decide in advance if the toplevel will > bootstrap. If you use --disable-bootstrap, it will not. I know, I exclusively use that nowadays. :-) > --disable-bootstrap will *not* disappear;rather, "../configure > --disable-bootstrap && make bootstrap", which currently triggers the > old-style GCC-only bootstrap, will disappear. That's good news and actually sufficient to allay most of my concerns. And you can count on me to yell if --disable-bootstrap breaks. :-) -- Eric Botcazou
