Re: [Fink-devel] m3/cvsup ported

[Max Horn]

At 17:08 Uhr +0100 19.02.2003, David wrote:

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On Mittwoch, Februar 19, 2003, at 05:00  Uhr, David R. Morrison wrote:

Generally, on Fink we wouldn't distribute a binary built somewhere else,
we would make a package which builds our own binary.  Or did I misunderstand
the situation?

In order to build the modula3 compiler you need a working modula3 compiler. The Problem seems to dig deep though. THe binary compiler supplied is a very minimal set. So you need to get the binary thing, set it up, get the modula3 sources and then compile your own full compiler. There are packages missing you need to build things like cvsup. For example the tcp package.

Therefore I am not quite sure how to handle this.

What you describe above sounds like the "normal" way compilers are bootstrapped. The question is, how did they obtain the original Darwin/OSX M3 compiler then? Via a cross compiler? That's about the only possibility I see, except maybe that they have a minimal non-M3 written compiler that can bootstrap M3, but if that was the case, then why don't they distribute that by default... seems unlikely.


Max


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