Sorry folks - I was being OT, flippant and a mite philosophical here. :-) -----Original Message----- From: Brian Dessent [mailto:brian@xxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: 10 December 2007 18:30 To: Dep, Khushil (GE Money) Cc: Tim Prince; tsah marco; gcc-help@xxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: First Compilation of GCC "Dep, Khushil (GE Money)" wrote: > Ah yes - the chicken and egg problem :-) Has anyone come up with an > answer to that one btw ;-) I don't know what kind of "answer" you're expecting here. gcc is written in C. If you download the gcc source it's no different than downloading C source of any other program -- useless without a C compiler. Brian