[llvm-dev] unable to compile llvm with gcc 4.7.4

[Renato Golin via llvm-dev]

On 17 October 2016 at 22:01, Daniel Berlin <dberlin at dberlin.org> wrote:
> This was kind of true at one point.  It used to be that the C compiler even
> worked with K&R through conversion.
> Nowadays, even this has fallen by the wayside.

Right, that would explain my confusion.


> I wouldn't call it "incomplete". In most cases, it includes all compilers
> and languages and libraries :)

It turns out, for cross-compilation bootstrap, in stage "0" you don't
really need any other language than C. Then, when the run-time and C
libraries are correct, you build full stage 1 and the rest follows.

Or so I gathered... :)

cheers,
--renato