Re: Install gcc without gcc

[TBlittlefoot]

On Fri, Dec 09, 2005 at 12:33:40PM -0800, alex-google-groups@alex.org.uk wrote:
> 
> James wrote:
> > Is there a way to install gcc without previous version of gcc on Linux?
> 
> Just install a binary package, hopefully as provided with your
> distribution.
> 
> In the extremely unlikely event that there is no binary package
> available (for instance if you are porting to a new architecture),
> cross-compile it from a machine that does have binary packages
> available. I very much doubt that's what you need to do though.

What if you _had_ to install it from source on the box in front
of you? Seems like if you had the assembly code you could do
something like enter the machine language for a basic assembler
and build it from there ???

Tom