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LCA: Disintermediating distributions
LCA: Disintermediating distributions
Posted Feb 15, 2008 11:51 UTC (Fri) by ekj (subscriber, #1524)In reply to: LCA: Disintermediating distributions by madscientist
Parent article: LCA: Disintermediating distributions
The catch-22 of needing a make-program to compile gnu make isn't that much of a problem really. You need a C compiler to compile GCC too. If you want it self-compiled you need to compile it twice: First use whatever C-compiler you happen to have lying around to compile GCC. Then use your fresh gcc to compile gcc.
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LCA: Disintermediating distributions
Posted Feb 15, 2008 22:00 UTC (Fri) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]
With recent versions, thanks to the magic of top-level bootstrap, `make' should give you a compiler and libraries byte-for-byte identical to what you'd have got if you did the recompile-it dance. (Older versions wouldn't have recompiled libiberty with the new compiler before linking that compiler with it; top-level bootstrap has fixed that.)