On Tue, Dec 09, 2003 at 08:54:45AM -0500, Anthony DeRobertis wrote: > > On Dec 8, 2003, at 11:48, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > > >On Sun, Dec 07, 2003 at 04:10:36PM +0000, Scott James Remnant wrote: > > > >>make? You'll need make installed to make make. There are a huge > >>number > >>of legitimate circular build dependencies, outlawing them won't help. > > > >There are quite a few, but make is a bad example, as it has included a > >shell script to build itself for just this purpose. > > Which requires bash/dash/whatever, which require make.
...which require a kernel, and a C library, and a computer, and some memory. Yes, you need an actual, working Unix system in order to compile Unix programs. -- - mdz
