>> Yah, that's right. First you install a binary version of the compiler.
>> Then you use that to compile a minimal version of the compiler from
>> source. Then you use *that* to compile a full version from source.
> 
> That used to be common with GCC - not sure if that's the one you're 
> using, but I remember the first time I saw it built was on a SunOS 
> platform, used the Sun CC compiler to build the first time and then it 
> built itself in order to fully optimise itself.
> 
> On hardware of the time, it generally took about 12 hours IIRC.

Actually, I'm recompiling the Haskell compiler. Which is written in 
Haskell. (And a small amount of C.)

It's still compiling. o_O

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