OK, so you want people to do

./configure --build=powerpc-foo-bar --host=powerpc-foo-bar -- target=powerpc64-foo-bar --prefix=$PWD/native64-compiler
make
make install
CC=$PWD/native64-compiler/bin/gcc /configure --build=powerpc64-foo- bar --host=powerpc64-foo-bar --target=powerpc64-foo-bar
make  <<implicitly bootstrap>>
rm -rf $PWD/native64-compiler

That would be really annoying for the same net effect, and something better managed by GCC's build machinery

Shantonu

On Jan 16, 2006, at 9:39 AM, Richard Kenner wrote:

    Just to be clear, you're suggesting that if you have:

--build=powerpc-foo-bar --host=powerpc64-foo-bar -- target=powerpc64-foo-bar

The user be able to specify something so that the build systems knows
    the build machine can execute the host binaries, and a 4-stage
    bootstrap should occur?

Well, that's possible, but I'd really prefer to avoid dealing with
"bootstraps" of cross-compilers at all and stick to native compilers, so
no, I'm not really suggesting that.

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