On Sat, May 14, 2011 at 2:30 AM, Graydon Hoare <[email protected]> wrote: > Let me know if it fails to work for you, or is confusing, or you can think > of nice ways to simplify it. Just a couple of questions: Is it now impossible to compile rustc without downloading a snapshot? If the snapshots were no longer available (for whatever reason) would it be clear enough for someone to track back through git's history and find the last working rustboot in order to bootstrap again?
Is there a way to port rustc to a new platform (assuming it has LLVM support) - i.e can it be configured as a cross compiler? How do you see the final state when the rust language is perfectly stable, will there still be stage0, stage1 etc? I seem to remember that when gcc builds, it starts with simplified compiler (gcc1 ?) which can be build with the system C compiler, then gcc1 compiles gcc and all the tools. Would there need to be a 'rustc1' written in C? Pete _______________________________________________ Rust-dev mailing list [email protected] https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/rust-dev
