Changeset b484748

Timestamp:

08/31/2007 12:06:23 PM (17 years ago)

Author:

Jeremy Huntwork <jhuntwork@…>

Children:

c61ca82

Parents:

4d75f4e

Message:

Add '--disable-bootstrap' to GCC pass 2 and chapter 6 GCC to achieve traditional LFS build methods with GCC 4.2.1

git-svn-id: ​http://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/LFS/branches/jh/BOOK@8359 4aa44e1e-78dd-0310-a6d2-fbcd4c07a689

Files:

• chapter01/changelog.xml (modified) (2 diffs)
• chapter05/gcc-pass1.xml (modified) (1 diff)
• chapter05/gcc-pass2.xml (modified) (2 diffs)
• chapter06/gcc.xml (modified) (1 diff)

chapter01/changelog.xml

@@ -36 +36 @@
     </listitem>
 -->
+
+    <listitem>
+      <para>2007-08-31</para>
+      <itemizedlist>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>[jhuntwork] - Add --disable-bootstrap flags to GCC pass 2 and chapter 6 GCC,
+          to achieve traditional LFS build methods with GCC 4.2.1.</para>
+        </listitem>
+      </itemizedlist>
+    </listitem>
 
     <listitem>
@@ -179 +189 @@
 
   <para>LFS 6.3 released August 28, 2007.</para>
+
 </sect1>

chapter05/gcc-pass1.xml

@@ -119 +119 @@
     </variablelist>
 
-    <para>Continue with compiling the package:</para>
+    <para>The following command will compile GCC not once, but several times. It
+    uses the programs compiled in a first round to compile itself a second time,
+    and then again a third time. It then compares these second and third compiles
+    to make sure it can reproduce itself flawlessly. This is called
+    <quote>bootstrapping</quote>. Building GCC in this way ensures that it was
+    compiled correctly and is now the default configuration for the released
+    package. Continue with compiling by running:</para>
 
 <screen><userinput>make</userinput></screen>

chapter05/gcc-pass2.xml

@@ -148 +148 @@
     --enable-__cxa_atexit --enable-languages=c,c++ \
     --disable-libstdcxx-pch --disable-multilib \
-    $WITHARCH
+    --disable-bootstrap $WITHARCH
 unset WITHARCH</userinput></screen>
 
@@ -204 +204 @@
       </varlistentry>
 
+      <varlistentry>
+        <term><parameter>--disable-bootstrap</parameter></term>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>Bootstrapping the compiler is now the default for GCC. However,
+          our build method should provide us with a solid compiler without the
+          need to bootstrap each time.</para>
+        </listitem>
+      </varlistentry>
+
     </variablelist>
 

chapter06/gcc.xml

@@ -85 +85 @@
     --enable-threads=posix --enable-__cxa_atexit \
     --enable-clocale=gnu --enable-languages=c,c++ \
-    --disable-multilib $WITHARCH
+    --disable-multilib --disable-bootstrap \
+    $WITHARCH
 unset WITHARCH</userinput></screen>