Re: dbuild running automatically on potato source tre

[Jules Bean <jmlb2@hermes.cam.ac.uk>]

On Wed, 24 Feb 1999, Michael Stone wrote:

> On Wed, Feb 24, 1999 at 02:41:18AM -0500, Mark W. Eichin wrote:
> > > gnat
> > 
> > gnat will only build if gnat (either the current or one-previous
> > upstream version) is installed -- it is written in Ada...
> 
> You need gnat to compile gnat? Where does the chicken come from?
> 

You need a c-compiler to compile gcc...

;)

There's an egg round here somewhere..

No seriously, this is common in compiler design.  You need sablecc to
compile sablecc, you need yacc to compile yacc..

Jules

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