> Put it another way. There are THOUSANDS of tools that you can't even > attempt to compile if you can't run configure. You can't run configure > w/out bash. You can't build bash unless you have the gnu toolchain. > > It's a knot. > > And the only way out that I can see is gcc. > > ron
a good number of tools are not that hard to de-configure. i've had to stoop to that when compiling stuff for which configure is broken. a good percentage of the stuff configured is not required. configure spends a lot of energy looking for spiffy optimizations that can safely be skipped. - erik
