On Fri, 10 May 2013 21:31:14 +0300
Susi Lehtola <jussilehtola(a)fedoraproject.org> wrote:
So, the compiler isn't bootstrap-only, but given the above the
sources generated with the same configure flags should end up to be
equivalent. Upstream releases only stable tarballs of the generated
sources that are aimed for end users. The compiler doesn't have
these kind of stable releases, it's just available in a VCS.
Now, it would also seem that debuginfo isn't generated properly when
the library is built alongside the compiler [1], so it would seem to be
preferable also for this reason to use a pregenerated source tarball.
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=961963
This would naturally also reduce the size of the build logs, which are
now pretty huge (360MB).
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Susi Lehtola
Fedora Project Contributor
jussilehtola(a)fedoraproject.org