On Tue, 30 Nov 1999, Cliff Crawford wrote:

> Does `make build' from toplevel build a new compiler first before
> building the rest of the tree?  Because I got the same error during
> a make build, while it was compiling dd.

Not usually. There is code to upgrade you to egcs if you don't have egcs,
but not code to automatically build a new compiler.

There are two reasons we do it this way: first and foremost to accomodate
the times when the compiler itself gets changed and is broken. :-) Second,
we don't have a way to express the dependencies needed to run -current
into the build files. Upgrading -current after a while usually involves
either grabbing a recent snapshot or lots of itterative attempts at
compiling followed by tool rebuilds. :-)

Take care,

Bill