On Sat, Dec 06, 2003 at 09:31:54PM +0200, Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho wrote: > For example, every self-hosting compiler build-depends on itself > (many of them can be bootstrapped, but I'm not sure we want to require > bootstrapping on every build - and some require manual bootstrapping > work).
Obviously gcc is the #1 example of this. However, gcc packages should not need to depend on themselves; in our distribution, we tend to have many different versions of gcc available, and any of them should be able to build a newer gcc. Nothing else in main comes to mind right now, though I'm sure there is something else... But for everything but the C compiler, I think that the build probably should do the bootstrapping work itself wherever possible.
