From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Aug 23 09:49:00 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id JAA09777 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 23 Aug 1996 09:49:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: from phaeton.artisoft.com (phaeton.Artisoft.COM [198.17.250.211]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id JAA09756 for ; Fri, 23 Aug 1996 09:48:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from terry@localhost) by phaeton.artisoft.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id JAA15904; Fri, 23 Aug 1996 09:34:37 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199608231634.JAA15904@phaeton.artisoft.com> Subject: Re: Am I wrong or is this just stupid?r To: proff@suburbia.net (Julian Assange) Date: Fri, 23 Aug 1996 09:34:37 -0700 (MST) Cc: jkh@time.cdrom.com, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199608230840.SAA27817@suburbia.net> from "Julian Assange" at Aug 23, 96 06:40:15 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > Keeping in mind that install is before ${CLEANDIR}, I believe the idea > is to remake the tools _with_the_new_tools_ before using them to remake > other things. i.e if you upgraded to gcc2.7.2 then first make gcc2.7.2 > with your old gcc, then remake it with the new one. Yes. This is the "stage" idea behind GCC. The idea is that you compile the compiler with the compiler so that it doesn't have the bugs that it has. It's an amusing tautology from the days when you compiled the compiler by hand-coding the assembly from the source, or by using someone else's compiler which you didn't trust. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.