Please don't top-post. Lalit Seth writes: > I have experienced that GCC fails to compile with gmake but gets > successfully compiled when gmake bootstrap-lean is used. Why so. Probably because your system compiler is broken. > 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. > >
