Warner Losh wrote:
>
> In message <19990416202430.c70...@nuxi.com> "David O'Brien" writes:
> : Please excuse my ignorance, but why does make aout-to-elf require the
> : -CURRENT compiler to produce a.out binaries?
> :
> : make aout-to-elf moves a working set of a.out libraries to ---/lib/aout,
> : so doesn't that cover the needs?
>
> No. make aout-to-elf builds a.out versions of everything first, then
> uses them to build the elf versions.
Correct. Older compilers would not be able to generate elf targets,
so we have to update the compiler first. The system actually makes a
complete world first, because of arcane reasons better left
unexplained, lest one would gradually become insane. For the
details, man cthulhu(9).
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