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From: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
To: Michael Schierl <schierlm@gmx.de>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org, guile-user@gnu.org, bootstrappable@freelists.org
Subject: Re: [bootstrappable] Re: Can Guile be bootstrapped from source without psyntax-pp.scm?
Date: Mon, 15 Mar 2021 18:09:48 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87zgz4cpib.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <fd22b8a3-6089-994c-f22a-33159a91d825@gmx.de> (Michael Schierl's message of "Sat, 13 Mar 2021 23:42:05 +0100")

Hi Michael,

Michael Schierl <schierlm@gmx.de> skribis:

> For the record, I have written a psyntax implementation that can be used
> by Guile (3.0.2) and does not require an expanded version of itself. It
> is not ideal (not fully hygienic and does not support with-ellipsis),
> but it works well enough to bootstrap a slightly patched version of
> psyntax.scm, which then can be used to bootstrap "the real thing" and
> then regenerate psyntax-pp.scm (resulting in a bit-for-bit identical
> version if you run the bootstrap on 64-bit Linux).
>
> The project is at
> <https://github.com/schierlm/guile-psyntax-bootstrapping/>.
>
> It may still contain some unnecessary code, and the patch for the
> patched vesion is definitely not minimal, but for now I'm glad that it
> works.

Woow, this is great news!  I think it would be great towards importing
it in Guile proper.

To do that, I think we should first get Andy’s opinion on the approach.
Then you could try to integrate the files into the Guile repo and adjust
the makefile machinery so that it uses this code to generate the initial
psyntax-pp.scm.

There may be additional things to look at, such as performance when
building from scratch.  We could still include the generated
psyntax-pp.scm in the tarball, like we do for some .go files, for those
who want a faster Guile build and are willing to make this tradeoff.

Thanks!

Ludo’.



  parent reply	other threads:[~2021-03-15 17:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-03-13 22:42 Can Guile be bootstrapped from source without psyntax-pp.scm? Michael Schierl
2021-03-14 13:57 ` [bootstrappable] " Jan Nieuwenhuizen
2021-03-14 14:18   ` Michael Schierl
2021-03-15 17:09 ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
2021-03-15 19:50   ` Michael Schierl
2021-03-16  8:59     ` Andy Wingo
2021-05-13 20:22       ` Michael Schierl
2021-03-17 17:25     ` Ludovic Courtès

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