14 Mar
2015
14 Mar
'15
12:10 a.m.
On Fri, Mar 13, 2015, at 20:07, Robert Collins wrote:
Wrong, no. harder yes. C compilers have mature cross compiler build chains including stage aware test suites and the like. When a tool is it's own build dependency bootstrapping it on a new platform gains a hard requirement on cross compiling rather than it being a thing for special cases like platforms that cannot compile the tool.
That's what bootstrapping is. If you're not doing this, you're not bootstrapping.