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Re: Building gcc with a non-gcc compiler (Was: old intentional gcc bug?)
- From: "Dennis Clarke" <dclarke at blastwave dot org>
- To: "Rask Ingemann Lambertsen" <rask at sygehus dot dk>
- Cc: "Ian Lance Taylor" <iant at google dot com>, "Brooks Moses" <brooks dot moses at codesourcery dot com>, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2007 21:27:44 -0400 (EDT)
- Subject: Re: Building gcc with a non-gcc compiler (Was: old intentional gcc bug?)
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> On Sat, Jun 23, 2007 at 05:25:54PM -0700, Ian Lance Taylor wrote:
>>
>> At Cygnus, in the early and mid- 90s, we did this routinely, starting
>> with the native compilers shipped with various Unix variants. As Unix
>> variants generally no longer come with a free (as in beer) compiler
>> other than gcc, this is harder to test today. Still, not too hard:
>> you would just start with some other free compiler.
>
I generally bootstrap with a Sun Studio compiler on Solaris and then
bootstrap again with whatever *that* resulted in.
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Dennis Clarke