Re: [PATCH] build: Add --disable-man-pages option

[Colin Walters]

On Mon, 2012-01-09 at 15:22 -0800, Karl Berry wrote:
> And how do you build gcc and glibc? 

I use Yocto: http://www.yoctoproject.org/

It gives me a base system with gcc and make and such, and then I go from
there.

> make and anything?  If you build everything from development sources
> instead of releases, there are "circular" dependencies everywhere.

Absolutely true.

> I fail to see why this one is any different.

It's trivial to manually break this particular cycle.  It's obviously
not trivial to make gcc build without a C compiler, so I just accept
building it cross always.