On Tue, Jun 05, 2018 at 01:49:12PM +0200, Gábor Boskovits wrote:
> Do you think we can do something like rebuild icedtea3 with icedtea3, and
> then rewrite the references? I guess this way the dependency loop could be
> broken, as we could detach the last icedtea3 build from the packages used
> for bootstrapping.

If the references are not important (that is, if they are not used), we
could also rewrite them to something that doesn't exist. Currently the
go-build-system does this so that Go executables don't refer to the Go
compiler, which is very large.