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.
Posted Feb 15, 2008 22:00 UTC (Fri) by nix (subscriber, #2304)
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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.)