In fact the very word 'bootstrap' implies a circular dependency, so it's an odd sort of complaint!
Tom's complaint is in the amount of bootstrapping needed, if the world suddenly gets hit with a flare of something, and all computers stop working, and all C compilers vanish and other tools that are crucial. In a perfect world you'd have a small set of tools needed to get the rest of the system up. For anyone familiar with LISP, it would basiclly be using the most primitive functions to build up _everything_ from there. Or that is how I understand it... To some extent I agree, you cannot cross-compile the whole GNU system easily for a different (non-existant) arch, bash 2.x was a pita to crosscompile, then there are some other tools. But you can always work around that... Like fixing the broken tools. ;) _______________________________________________ Gnu-arch-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-arch-users GNU arch home page: http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/gnu-arch/
