From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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Subject: Re: (Re: compiling gcc)
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On Tue, 21 Sep 1999, Damian Yerrick wrote:

On a small chance that these are real questions which you are
interested to see answered, I will try.

> So how was gcc built? I wonder...

No need to wonder.  The GCC bootstrap procedure is explained in the
GCC docs.  If you want to know how was the first version of DJGPP
produced, read http://www.delorie.com/djgpp/history.html.

> How is PKZIP unzipped?

Programs that compress files are usually distributed as executable
binaries that unpack themselves.  PKZIP comes as pkzNNN.exe (where NNN
is a version number).  gzip is distributed as a shar file, in essense
a huge shell script, which, when run, unpacks itself and builds the
program.