Compilers that bootstrap themselves should try to eliminate external dependencies needed to just get the bootstrap going for this exact reason. Hell, Ruby uses

Compilers that bootstrap themselves should try to eliminate external dependencies needed to just get the bootstrap going for this exact reason. Hell, Ruby uses itself as part of the build process and one of the first things it does is compile `miniruby` which is a small enough variant of the runtime and libraries that it can run `rake` and a couple other tools. This is actually really sad to hear, because I've been waiting to see proper RPM's for the CoreCLR in Fedora for a long time, but having to constantly bring in new binaries to bootstrap the package is a huge headache that few package maintainers would be willing to take. Maybe provide the option to build a statically linked build that could be shoved into a different package and used to bootstrap a new dynamic version?