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On Wednesday 10 February 2010 18:37:00 Mark Knecht wrote: |
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> > gcc rebuilds itself twice to ensure that the binary is built with the |
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> > same version as the result, and verifies that the last two are bit-wise |
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> > identical. Then building the toolchain, then building the rest of world |
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> > gives you exactly what you hope to get from doing it twice. |
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> And it was you or Neil or someone else here who pointed that out maybe |
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> 1-2 years ago so I stopped doing it twice. |
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> But, heck, why not? I do a lot of pointless things every day. I only |
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> do new installs a few times a year... ;-) |
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Now that you put it that way.... :-) |
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alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com |
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