Bootstrapping gcc and libc was one of the time honoured traditions I went through as a teenager with a Linux box. Learning how to set up gcc as a cross compile

Bootstrapping gcc and libc was one of the time honoured traditions I went through as a teenager with a Linux box. Learning how to set up gcc as a cross compiler to produce ELF binaries on an a.out system (or generating m68k binaries on my 486) was quite helpful later in my career when working on embedded systems. Granted, a lot of this was necessary as SLS and Slackware didn't exactly have very capable packaging systems at the time.