On Wednesday 10 February 2010 18:37:00 Mark Knecht wrote: > > gcc rebuilds itself twice to ensure that the binary is built with the > > same version as the result, and verifies that the last two are bit-wise > > identical. Then building the toolchain, then building the rest of world > > gives you exactly what you hope to get from doing it twice. > > And it was you or Neil or someone else here who pointed that out maybe > 1-2 years ago so I stopped doing it twice. > > But, heck, why not? I do a lot of pointless things every day. I only > do new installs a few times a year... ;-)
Now that you put it that way.... :-) -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
