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Re: compilers that self compile



Re: Jeroen van Wolffelaar in <[🔎] 20041020164345.GN18918@A-Eskwadraat.nl>
> >    * how packages like those go in the repository for the first time?
> 
> By ignoring build-depends while in some way you've made your system to
> actually be able to build the package. I.e., you've for example
> bootstrapped the compiler. Then you install it locally, and build your
> package again, this time the normal way, and you upload it. After it's
> in the archive, it's rebuildable by itself.

Of course, the bootstrapping has to be done for each architecture
again.

Christoph
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