From: "Damian Yerrick" <web DOT poison AT pineight DOT 8m DOT com>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: (Re: compiling gcc)
Date: Tue, 21 Sep 1999 19:22:28 -0500
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Someone asked why make didn't work when trying to
compile gcc, the interface to all of DJGPP's functions.
Then Alex Crowther <mr_spod AT hotmail DOT com> wrote:
>
> It sounds abit like you are trying to make eggs
> without involving a chicken,

Turkey eggs. Robin eggs. Ostrich eggs.

> or put another way, you are trying to compile gcc (a compiler)
> because you need a compiler, however you need a compiler
> to compile the compiler, and hense it wont compile :P

If you're talking about the hen-and-egg problem,
shouldn't it be "hens it won't compile"? :-)

So how was gcc built? I wonder...
How was qDOS (aka MS-DOS 0.1) saved to disk?
How are Windows's CD-ROM drivers loaded from the CD?
How is PKZIP unzipped?
How is the FTP client downloaded?
How was the first living cell created?
(Sorry, my A.D.D. mind wandered way off topic.)

> say things like
>
> CC=Insert Your Compiler Here

Like Turbo C (the one I used for Proto-PC-Insane)? M$ Visual C++?

Damian Yerrick
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