On Thu, Dec 20, 2001 at 11:09:44AM -0800, Brent Dax wrote: > Robert Spier: > # This means, that either: > # > # a) parrot needs to bootstrap itself from some platform-dependent > # bootstrap script. (and hopefully there would only need to be a few > # of these, bootstrap-unix.sh, bootstrap-windows.bat, > # bootstrap-vms.dcl). > > I vote for this option. All we really need for this is the shell > scripts (which don't have to implement the "build-only-if-necessary" > logic of make) and a generic config.h that assumes nothing.
Maybe I just don't understand what the (a) option is trying to say, but it doesn't work quite that way. In .bat you are not going to do timestamp comparisons. My preference still is rely on *NOTHING* except an ANSI C compiler, and a way to execute the executable. Use the results of the executable as input to the next round. Repeat. Keep repeating. At some point you'll have enough information to create a "nanomake", with some basic "shell" tools like cp and mkdir embedded into it. > --Brent Dax > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Configure pumpking for Perl 6 > > "Nothing important happened today." > --George III of England's diary entry for 4-Jul-1776 -- $jhi++; # http://www.iki.fi/jhi/ # There is this special biologist word we use for 'stable'. # It is 'dead'. -- Jack Cohen
