If your bootstrap gcc isn't compiled from source then it's irrelevant what else is. http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?TheKenThompsonHack
-- sent from my phone, please excuse brevity and typos On Oct 13, 2015 5:14 PM, "Arne Babenhauserheide" <[email protected]> wrote: > Am Dienstag, 13. Oktober 2015, 10:13:07 schrieb Ian: > > Can you explain to me how anyone can use a modern computer for anything > > without trusting someone else's binaries? Let's live in reality here. > > Gentoo GNU/Linux builds everything from source, and once gcc is > bootstrapped and the stage3-files are rebuilt, only source packages > get downloaded. For several years my jdk (icedtea 6 back then) was > built using gcj. > > So this is possible right now (I use Gentoo at home and at work), and > not even inconvenient if you have a desktop system which runs anyway > (then the compile times don’t matter). > > Best wishes, > Arne > _______________________________________________ Devl mailing list [email protected] https://emu.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devl
