The point with post_modules is to have a freshly built pike to do stuff with, yes. tpike is only used explicitly to build the peephole and tree optimizers and the unicode tables for case conversion.
/ Martin Stjernholm, Roxen IS
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2003-02-17 22:40: Subject: unnecessary tpike
Which parts needs tpike?
Do post_module need it? I believe there is a lot of work that needs to be done by Pike there, especially for GTK. It could probably do the work with the normal pike binary though, if it's built before post_modules.
/ Mirar