On 28/09/2010 02:01, Jay K wrote: > I only do one language, no driver, one stage, no libraries (none of libgcc, > libstdc++, libjava, libada, etc.), no fixincludes (the headers are probably > fine, and aren't used by this frontend anyway), the bootstrap compiler is > always pretty decent, thus one stage (or I'll "cheat" and do one full > regular bootstrap+install of a recent release on the occasional oddball > host). > > > It takes under 10 minutes on year old MacBook. (sorry, I didn't measure).
Well, the other thing is: why not just build them once and install them to your $prefix? There's no need to build them in-tree every time if you have sufficiently up-to-date versions installed. cheers, DaveK