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RE: First Compilation of GCC

From: "Dep, Khushil (GE Money)" <Khushil dot Dep at ge dot com>
To: <gcc-help at gcc dot gnu dot org>
Cc: "Tim Prince" <tprince at computer dot org>, "tsah marco" <tsahmarco at gmail dot com>
Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2007 14:19:01 -0000
Subject: RE: First Compilation of GCC
References: <23dcc150712100425u3c990605g2d3f9e949e309e8e@mail.gmail.com> <23dcc150712100437sd4d3764p988b6449e56e8551@mail.gmail.com> <475D36DF.3070905@computer.org> <D5C95A553071344EBDB133B851C31DDE73C162@LONMLVEM07.e2k.ad.ge.com> <475D8592.F40CAEE0@dessent.net>

Sorry folks - I was being OT, flippant and a mite philosophical here.
:-) 

-----Original Message-----
From: Brian Dessent [mailto:brian@dessent.net] 
Sent: 10 December 2007 18:30
To: Dep, Khushil (GE Money)
Cc: Tim Prince; tsah marco; gcc-help@gcc.gnu.org
Subject: Re: First Compilation of GCC

"Dep, Khushil (GE Money)" wrote:

> Ah yes - the chicken and egg problem :-) Has anyone come up with an 
> answer to that one btw ;-)

I don't know what kind of "answer" you're expecting here.  gcc is
written in C.  If you download the gcc source it's no different than
downloading C source of any other program -- useless without a C
compiler.

Brian

References:
- Re: First Compilation of GCC
  - From: tsah marco
- Re: First Compilation of GCC
  - From: Tim Prince
- RE: First Compilation of GCC
  - From: Dep, Khushil (GE Money)
- Re: First Compilation of GCC
  - From: Brian Dessent

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