On Oct 31, 2006, Paul Brook <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In my experience the first thing you do bringing up a new system is build a > cross compiler and use that to build glibc and coreutils/busybox. This is all > done on an established host that has gmp/mpfr ported to it. > Bootstrapping a native compiler comes quite late in system bringup, and only > happens at all on server/workstation-class hardware.
But then, for those, if you want to make sure you got a reproducible build, you'll want to cross-build gmp and mpfr, cross-build a native toolchain, bootstrap it, build gmp and mpfr with it and then bootstrap again. It would be *so* much nicer if one could just drop gmp and mpfr into the GCC source tree and we'd use it during bootstrap. -- Alexandre Oliva http://www.lsd.ic.unicamp.br/~oliva/ Secretary for FSF Latin America http://www.fsfla.org/ Red Hat Compiler Engineer [EMAIL PROTECTED], gcc.gnu.org} Free Software Evangelist [EMAIL PROTECTED], gnu.org}
