Mark Mitchell wrote: > Paolo Bonzini wrote: > >> IIUC, the problem only manifests while *building* the release candidates, >> not for users of the release candidate. >> >> For 4.2, my suggestion is to just use a bootstrap4 while building the RC. > > That's an attractive idea. But, I'd rather fix it correctly, because > distributors may run into the same problem.
Sorry, I meant 4.2.0 -- for 4.2.1, we can backport whatever fix is needed for 4.3. >> For 4.3, we can use --enable-stage1-languages=all when building the RCs. >> I can prepare a patch to do that automatically when >> --enable-generated-files-in-srcdir >> is passed. > > That might work, but it seems like overkill; that just makes the > bootstrap process longer. It makes it longer by one-two minutes: the time to build the three front-ends without optimization. Paolo
