gmake upgrade

[Chuck Swiger]

On Dec 9, 2006, at 1:51 PM, Kris Kennaway wrote:
> gmake does not require gmake to build.  If it did, how could you  
> build it for the first time?

At one point, someone had to do something like:

for file in *.c
do cc -O -c $file
done
cc -o gmake *.o

What becomes more fun is trying to bootstrap something more  
fundamental to the compiler toolchain, such as the assembler...  :-)

-- 
-Chuck