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Message-ID: <382E6706.E8587179@softhome.net>
Date: Sun, 14 Nov 1999 09:38:46 +0200
From: Laurynas Biveinis <lauras AT softhome DOT net>
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To: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: GCC porting questions
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Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> If I understand correctly from the fragment you cited, it pertains to
> the special kind of GCC build called ``bootstrap''.  This is done on a
> system where no previous version of GCC exists, and so the first
> compile is done using the system C compiler.

But this `special kind of GCC build called ``bootstrap''' is the one & only
way to build gcc as described in docs, no matter are you using gcc as system's
compiler, or any other compiler.

So I think I still can bother :-)

Laurynas Biveinis


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