On Dec 8, 2003, at 11:48, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
On Sun, Dec 07, 2003 at 04:10:36PM +0000, Scott James Remnant wrote:make? You'll need make installed to make make. There are a huge numberof legitimate circular build dependencies, outlawing them won't help.There are quite a few, but make is a bad example, as it has included a shell script to build itself for just this purpose.
Which requires bash/dash/whatever, which require make. It's a slightly larger circle, but a circle no less.