Self-hosting



         


A self-hosting software distribution is one which provides all necessary source code to enable itself to be re-compiled from scratch, including all of the necessary tool chains needed for its compilation.

Some Linux distributions such as Gentoo Linux and Sorcerer GNU/Linux are self-hosting.

Also (of a computer language): a computer language which is natively implemented in its own language. The programming languages C and Lisp are self-hosting.

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