That sounds indeed like it could be done by the dist process instead, with the previously installed Pike.
/ Mirar
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2003-02-17 22:46: Subject: unnecessary tpike
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