Status and rationale for toplevel bootstrap (was Re: Example of debugging GCC with toplevel bootstrap)

2006-01-14 Thread Bonzini Paolo
> make stage1-bubble STAGE1_LANGUAGES=c,c++,fortran,java > Wow, that's awkward. I understand, but I have a patch to make it easier. Patches for the toplevel take a long time to review, and I cannot handle posting too many patches and tracking them. Not even two patches. Currently I

R: Status and rationale for toplevel bootstrap (was Re: Example of debugging GCC with toplevel bootstrap)

2006-01-14 Thread Bonzini Paolo
> > 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