[fpc-pascal] Compiler bootstrapping?

[Marco van de Voort]

> I am not sure to understand this text from FPC FAQs item no. 3.
> Can someone explain better?
> 
> Bootstrapping:
> FPC requires a suitable set of binutils (AS,AR,LD), gmake and a
> commandline compiler. New architectures/OSes are crosscompiled. GPC
> bootstraps via a suitable version of GCC, and requires a full set of
> binutils, flex, bison, gmake, a POSIX shell and libtool.

The buildfaq has some more verbose explanation of these :

http://www.stack.nl/~marcov/buildfaq.pdf