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Re: RFC: Dropping the non-GCC bootstrap requirement
Bernardo Innocenti <bernie@develer.com> writes:
> Zack Weinberg wrote:
>
>> See, the solution to the crossbuild problem (and to the "non-GCC
>> bootstrap compiler" problem) is to build cpplib for the build machine,
>> and wrap a custom tool around it. That part is easy. But once
>> you've done that, why not make the custom tool a little cleverer so
>> that it can generate _all_ the dependencies? I don't think it's
>> hard.
>
> Has anybody considered dropping the requirement of
> being able to bootstrap from any C89 compiler?
Over. My. Dead. Body.
zw