Re: Building Debian Completely From Source
On Tue, Dec 09, 2003 at 08:54:45AM -0500, Anthony DeRobertis wrote:
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> On Dec 8, 2003, at 11:48, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
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> >On Sun, Dec 07, 2003 at 04:10:36PM +0000, Scott James Remnant wrote:
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> >>make? You'll need make installed to make make. There are a huge
> >>number
> >>of legitimate circular build dependencies, outlawing them won't help.
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> >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.
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> Which requires bash/dash/whatever, which require make.
...which require a kernel, and a C library, and a computer, and some memory.
Yes, you need an actual, working Unix system in order to compile Unix programs.
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- mdz
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