Bootstrapping (was Re: ITP: MUMPS -- ...)

2008-07-17 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 07/17/08 02:05, Andreas Tille wrote: On Wed, 16 Jul 2008, Ron Johnson wrote: Mumps is a computer language. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MUMPS And there is a GPLed implementation of this at http://sourceforge.net/projects/fis-gtm

Re: Bootstrapping (was Re: ITP: MUMPS -- ...)

2008-07-17 Thread Andreas Tille
On Thu, 17 Jul 2008, Ron Johnson wrote: IIRC (and I very well might not), doesn't gcc also bootstrap itself? Sure. The problem is that there was an initial bootstrap at some point in time and you can relay on a working gcc in Debian since ages. This is not the case for GT.M and even if I