Gentoo Archives: gentoo-amd64

From: Dieter Ries <clip2@×××.de>
To: gentoo-amd64@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] About gcc 4.1.1
Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2006 17:26:13
Message-Id: 200608311923.18736.clip2@gmx.de
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-amd64] About gcc 4.1.1 by Bob Slawson
1 thank you.
2
3 Am Donnerstag 31 August 2006 19:17 schrieb Bob Slawson:
4 > Dieter Ries wrote:
5 > > OK so there it is, gcc 4.1.1 is stable.
6 > >
7 > > i just emerged it and switched gcc-config to 4.1.1.
8 > > does it make sense to recompile gcc 4.1.1 with gcc 4.1.1?
9 > > (do you know what i mean?
10 >
11 > No. As part of the gcc build process, the new gcc is used to compile
12 > itself. 'Stage 1'
13 > uses an existing compiler to compile the new source to 'xgcc'. Then in
14 > 'stage 2',
15 > 'xgcc' compiles the new source to 'gcc', the compiler is compiling itself.
16 >
17 > BobS
18
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