Re: Install gcc without gcc

[TBlittlefoot]

On Sat, Jan 21, 2006 at 01:40:43PM +0100, Andre Poenitz wrote:
> TBlittlefoot <littlefoot8@earthlink.net> wrote:
> > What if you _had_ to install it from source on the box in front
> > of you?
> 
> Then you need another C compiler.
> 
> > 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 ???
> 
> Given that most of gcc is written in C, an assembler alone
> would not be sufficient.

You can convert the C to assembly language for a particular architecture
with gcc itself, and then make that available on an FTP site (if it
isn't already).

Tom