Date: Mon, 29 Jan 1996 17:20:50 -0600 From: Richard Wackerbarth <rkw@dataplex.net> To: Julian Elischer <julian@ref.tfs.com> Cc: nate@sri.MT.net, current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: I'm rather annoyed with -current. Message-ID: <v02140b01ad33063aab16@[199.183.109.242]>
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>> >> Unfortunately, we *have* to use them. You can't build a c-compiler >> w/out a C-compiler. Obviously, all of the support tools that go along >> with are also important. >> >> >> > First we make the tools into the object tree and then we turn around and >> > make the target binaries using those tools. > >When I make OSF1 >it starts off with some stashed away binaries of cc >then remakes them using the sources.. >then it remakes the libs with the new compilers >then it remakes the compilers with the new libs and then old new compilers >then compiles the rest of the tree using the new libs and new new compilers > >It doesn't touch what's on the host system for anything.. >it even looks in the source tree for the /usr/share/mk stuff >which BTW is based on the BSD stuff. And that is just the idea that I am proposing. OSF1 isn't the only system to do this. And we should do so also. ---- Richard Wackerbarth rkw@dataplex.net
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