RFC: Dropping the non-GCC bootstrap requirement

[Zack Weinberg]

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