[Andreas Tille] > Hi, > > I'm just forewarding the answer of upstream about the possibilities > for the bootstrapping process ... > > Any comments?
I would suggest you ask upstream to include a set of generated files in the upstream tarball, to make it possible to bootstrap the tarball using a C compiler instead of requiring a M compiler. It could then as the normal build first build the M compiler using a C compiler and the bootstrap files, next generate the same files using its freshly built M compiler, and last build these files once or twice if it want to check that the generated files were correct. It would be fairly close to how gcc does it. It would be a lot easier to bootstrap the M compiler if it included code to start with a C compiler, as a C compiler is available on all distributions and architectures, while an M compiler is not. Happy hacking, -- Petter Reinholdtsen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
