>Does the unix philosophy require web pack and a complex compiler tool chain to get it to work? Is Compiling one language into another part of the philosophy as

>Does the unix philosophy require web pack and a complex compiler tool chain to get it to work? Is Compiling one language into another part of the philosophy as well? In terms of the GNU system, they usually require autotools, make, gcc and binutils to compile. The code is translated along the way into a binary that matches the local format, such as ELF or Mach-O.