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Re: Current head won't build


From: Stephen J. Turnbull
Subject: Re: Current head won't build
Date: Wed, 16 Jun 2010 21:23:32 +0900

Andreas Schwab writes:

 > "Stephen J. Turnbull" <address@hidden> writes:
 > 
 > > You want at least "make distclean bootstrap".
 > 
 > distclean will nuke your makefiles and configuration.

Yup.  That's precisely what is desired here.  Scorched earth, build
the world from scratch.  Otherwise, you *will* occasionally lose.

Most people are happy losing very occasionally if it saves a fair
amount of time on each pseudo-bootstrap, but AIUI Randal professes a
far more exacting standard.  Either that, or he's pretty unlucky and
loses on a fairly large fraction of his bootstraps.

Anyway, "make distclean" is the way to minimize bootstrap lossage.

As far as the ./configure line itself goes, sure, you want to save
that.  But there are plenty of ways to do that.



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