alt Hacker NewsWhy do you need to bootstrap a toolchain to bootstrap a distro?
I know this is common but it seems like either an aesthetic decision, or glibc cruft.
Why do you need to bootstrap a toolchain to bootstrap a distro?
I know this is common but it seems like either an aesthetic decision, or glibc cruft.
There are classes of virus that are hard to detect. One is a compiler virus that passes itself from compiler to compiler. You only get rid of the vector by bootstrapping from 0.