Re: Bug report: Compile with Microsoft and Intel compiler

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2005 13:07:17 +0000
> From: "Earnie Boyd" <address@hidden>
> 
> Bootstrapping a new environment is only needed once.

Once per user, not once per universe.  At least potentially.

Yes, I know that many DOS/Windows users tend to download precompiled
binaries.  But imagine that, for some reason, one needs to rebuild
everything from scratch: one would then need to start from a few basic
tools, and Make is one of them.