> On Sat, Jun 23, 2007 at 05:25:54PM -0700, Ian Lance Taylor wrote: >> >> At Cygnus, in the early and mid- 90s, we did this routinely, starting >> with the native compilers shipped with various Unix variants. As Unix >> variants generally no longer come with a free (as in beer) compiler >> other than gcc, this is harder to test today. Still, not too hard: >> you would just start with some other free compiler. >
I generally bootstrap with a Sun Studio compiler on Solaris and then bootstrap again with whatever *that* resulted in. - Dennis Clarke