notes from gcc summit maintenance BOF

[Daniel Jacobowitz]

On Sun, Jun 01, 2003 at 03:30:24PM -0400, DJ Delorie wrote:
> 
> > 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.

As far as I know GNU make has always gone first.  It needs a C compiler
but is extremely undemanding of said compiler.

-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz
MontaVista Software                         Debian GNU/Linux Developer