How Do Binary Repair

[Peter A. Giessel]

On 2006/12/04 14:08, Rachel Florentine seems to have typed:
> 82----- Original Message ----
> From: Kris Kennaway <kris at obsecurity.org>
> 
>> Reinstall from backup or fresh binary media.
> 
> So go to GNU and look for a gcc tarball and have at it. But that's not the FBSD way of doing things, is it? I wouldn't do that with MySQL, for example, I'd use the port, right? So, what's the FBSD way of doing this?
> TIA,
> Rachel

I'm assuming that you are talking about GCC in the base system?

How do you propose to recompile GCC without GCC?  I suppose you could do
a "make buildworld" but not if you don't have a working compiler.