On Mon, Jan 16, 2006 at 09:48:14AM -0500, Richard Kenner wrote: > > Why would somebody ever want to *disable* it? If you don't want to > > bootstrap, you just don't *do* it! > > Oh come on. This is semantics. --disable-bootstrap is the equivalent > of not doing it. > > I don't follow. If I don't want to bootstrap, I won't say "make bootstrap". > Why do I need a configure option to *prevent* me from saying that?
Because other rules in the toplevel makefile need to know whether they are being used as part of a bootstrap or not. I'm not going to respond to the rest. We're going around in circles and not making the slightest forward progress. -- Daniel Jacobowitz CodeSourcery
