On Sat, 14 Feb 2009 22:07:01 +0000, Orchid XP v8 wrote:

>>> 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

Interesting....how long has it been running?

Jim

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