I have experienced that GCC fails to compile with gmake but gets successfully compiled when gmake bootstrap-lean is used. Why so. This was on HPUX 11.11 for version 3.3.2 On 11/8/06, Tim Prince <timothyprince@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Ian Lance Taylor wrote: > "Lalit Seth" <sethlalitwo@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > >> I like to knw why we use "gmake bootstrap-lean" to compile GCC instead >> of "gmake". How they are different and what behaviour changes are >> there in 2 cases for GCC compiler. > > We have no idea why you do that. > > The difference is that during bootstrap-lean old stages are removed > when they are no longer needed. That is, bootstrap-lean uses less > disk space. There is no difference in the compiler. > I thought OP might be asking why it took so long for gcc build to implement a default which should know when bootstrap is required. Only the recent versions can build from scratch without explicit bootstrap option.
