Hi
Dr A Olowofoyeku wrote: ... ( taking 2 hours and eating 100 mb of my hard disk space )
Looks like instead of "make bootstrap " we should be using "make bootstrap-lean"
GCC says this deletes files after they are no longer needed.
Since I've already used "make bootstrap" and "make install" ran "make bootstrap-lean" to see what would happen
df reports 900049 1k blocks before. and 859745 blocks after thus freeing 45,304 k in the process
Thanks,
Russ russwhit@mind.net
On 5 Nov 99, at 16:12, Russ Whitaker wrote:
Hi
Dr A Olowofoyeku wrote: ... ( taking 2 hours and eating 100 mb of my hard disk space )
Looks like instead of "make bootstrap " we should be using "make bootstrap-lean"
GCC says this deletes files after they are no longer needed.
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That does reduce disk usage - but it still takes 2 hours or more. Why do we actually need to make the bootstrap? Presumably this is to upgrade your version of GCC in the first instance - but when you do have an up-to-date GCC, is it still necessary to make bootstrap just to compile GPC?
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The African Chief wrote:
That does reduce disk usage - but it still takes 2 hours or more. Why do we actually need to make the bootstrap? Presumably this is to upgrade your version of GCC in the first instance - but when you do have an up-to-date GCC, is it still necessary to make bootstrap just to compile GPC?
IMHO, it is not. The bootstrap first uses the - possibly non-free - of your system to produce a first GCC and then uses that to produce the real GCC. This solves some licensing issues and provides some consistency to GCC. (Otherwise there would be a lot of versions of GCC around which differ in the compiler they have been compiled with.) IMHO this is not necessary on systems where an up-to-date GCC is the default CC anyway.
Peter
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