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Re: [gfortran,patch] bootstrap broken
hp@bitrange.com (Hans-Peter Nilsson) wrote on 16.09.04 in <Pine.BSF.4.58.0409161557030.86966@dair.pair.com>:
> On Thu, 16 Sep 2004, Tobias Schlüter wrote:
> > Hans-Peter Nilsson wrote:
> > > Right: there is no such thing as "bootstrapping for
> > > cross-compilers".
> >
> > Well, what I meant was a build process that goes something like this:
> > [describing as improvement an extra step of
> > building and/or bootstrapping and installing source for cross
> > compiler also as host compiler]
>
> No, that's not how it's done, and not what I'd like to see as a
> requirement, particularly not as an argument out of a documented
> requirement.
Hmm. I don't recollect where exactly, but I am pretty certain I *have*
seen this documented somewhere.
MfG Kai