[LLVMdev] recursing llvm

[Óscar Fuentes]

Eric Christopher <echristo at apple.com> writes:

> On Jun 19, 2012, at 5:24 PM, reed kotler <rkotler at mips.com> wrote:
>
>> Do the llvm nightly scripts "recurse" the compiler or just test that it 
>> can self host itself?
>> 
>
> No idea what you mean here. Can you explain?

Step 1: compile Clang with some other compiler (i.e. gcc or old Clang)

Step 2: compile Clang with the binaries produced on step 1

Step 3: compile Clang with the binaries produced on step 2

I think he means Step 3.