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  • mkwt@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    The bit about the small forge forging a forge is skewering the Gentoo concept of toolchain bootstrapping.

    Problem: how can you claim to have compiled the entire system on your own local machine if you need a compiler to compile a compiler? Where do you get that compiler from?

    Solution: Use an external compiler to compile a compiler. Then use that compiler that you just compiled to compile itself again. Then use that second compiler to recompile the rest of the system.