That’s to be expected with any bootstrapped language. What’s insane is how relatively recent a version some of the GNU tools depend on, with one version in the

That’s to be expected with any bootstrapped language. What’s insane is how relatively recent a version some of the GNU tools depend on, with one version in there depending on itself! I think it’d be a good policy for any bootstrapped tool or language’s build to depend on no later than the last released previous major version. Intermediate bootstrap levels (e.g. miniperl) are fine, as long as one can start from the previous major.