On 3/1/25 6:46 PM, Peter Yardley wrote:
We used to build it three times, to be sure, to be
sure, to be
sure. Once to get a working compiler, again to remove taint and once
more to get a build made with a taint free compiler.
I've seen hints of this in Gentoo Stage 1 installs. Use existing tools
to build Gentoo versions of the tools. Then use the Gentoo version of
the tools to re-build the Gentoo version of the tools. Then do an empty
tree rebuild of everything using the Gentoo version of the tools.
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Grant. . . .