notes from gcc summit maintenance BOF

[DJ Delorie]

> On Sun, Jun 01, 2003 at 03:10:58PM -0400, DJ Delorie wrote:
> > >     WHAT TO DO WITH REQUIRED VERSION of make
> > >       - specific one, GNU make 3.79.1
> > 
> > This is a chicken and egg problem, if GNU make requires GCC to build.
> 
> It currently doesn't.  If it does in the future, well, that's what
> precompiled binaries are for.  People bootstrapping from bare iron can
> toggle it in from the front panel.

I mention it only because IIRC the usual comments about upgrading to
newest tools and specs are that something has to build on the old
stuff, just to get everything started.  It used to be gcc that went
first.