Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2006 10:00:46 -0800 From: Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com> To: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> Cc: freeBSD List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: gmake upgrade Message-ID: <B52C58DF-99B5-4CB6-B4CC-014353892B74@mac.com> In-Reply-To: <20061209215103.GA23691@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <41b95770612091344k5350afa9h16fc2a2104142215@mail.gmail.com> <20061209215103.GA23691@xor.obsecurity.org>
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On Dec 9, 2006, at 1:51 PM, Kris Kennaway wrote: > gmake does not require gmake to build. If it did, how could you > build it for the first time? At one point, someone had to do something like: for file in *.c do cc -O -c $file done cc -o gmake *.o What becomes more fun is trying to bootstrap something more fundamental to the compiler toolchain, such as the assembler... :-) -- -Chuck
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