-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 According to Bob Proulx on 12/30/2006 9:03 PM: > Bootstrapping a new architecture from bare metal is often a > problematic exercise in circular dependencies. I ran into a case of > this while building the coreutils.
This is often the case for a number of GNU utilities. M4 is another example, where bootstrapping CVS M4 requires Autoconf, which in turn requires an installed version of GNU M4. Fortunately, few people need to bootstrap straight out of CVS, and the release tarballs have much less stringent prerequisite requirements. So a good rule of thumb is to install the last stable released version before trying to bootstrap a CVS version. - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFFlzkf84KuGfSFAYARAsTqAJ9r7zXru3+JQ/zMfvFCWV/oUqV6tACbBmCx Hwq193zS0S/ek0gYPFmiios= =c+qd -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
