From: "Jonathan McHugh" <indieterminacy@libre.brussels>
To: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>,
"Maxime Devos" <maximedevos@telenet.be>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Autotools-generated 'configure' & 'Makefile.in' considered binaries?
Date: Fri, 01 Apr 2022 09:12:49 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <01b321d2e2470b83d86c9b8fbfa73f38@libre.brussels> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87zgl5npss.fsf@gnu.org>
Hi Ludo,
April 1, 2022 11:01 AM, "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org> wrote:
>
> This is conceptually the “right thing”, but it raises a significant
> bootstrapping problem. Our bootstrap path currently focuses on being
> able to run shell scripts, in particular ‘configure’ scripts, before we
> can even build Bash, thanks to Gash and Gash-Utils. If we were to build
> the autotools machinery systematically, we’d need Gash-Utils to provide
> a Perl and an M4 implementation. (Now, Timothy has written an Awk
> interpreter, so a Perl interpreter can’t be so hard, right? :-))
> The other option is to write an Autoconf and Automake implementation…
>
A huge Awk fan, have you got a reference for Timothy's interpreter?
> As a first milestone, maybe we could start running ‘autoreconf’ more
> often, for packages higher in the graph. We could change the
> ‘bootstrap’ build phase to do that unless it’s explicitly turned off.
> It may turn out to be a Sisyphean task though…
>
> Thoughts?
>
> Ludo’.
====================
Jonathan McHugh
indieterminacy@libre.brussels
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-04-01 9:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-03-30 12:04 Autotools-generated 'configure' & 'Makefile.in' considered binaries? Maxime Devos
2022-03-30 14:31 ` Zhu Zihao
2022-03-31 11:17 ` Maxime Devos
2022-03-31 11:19 ` Maxime Devos
2022-03-31 11:22 ` Maxime Devos
2022-03-31 11:27 ` Maxime Devos
2022-03-30 18:55 ` Liliana Marie Prikler
2022-03-30 19:24 ` Maxime Devos
2022-03-31 4:22 ` Liliana Marie Prikler
2022-03-31 11:10 ` Maxime Devos
2022-03-31 18:24 ` Liliana Marie Prikler
2022-03-31 18:31 ` Maxime Devos
2022-03-31 20:11 ` Liliana Marie Prikler
2022-04-01 8:58 ` Ludovic Courtès
2022-04-01 10:03 ` Maxime Devos
2022-04-05 12:06 ` Ludovic Courtès
2022-04-06 16:35 ` Maxim Cournoyer
2022-04-10 20:25 ` Ludovic Courtès
2022-05-02 10:55 ` zimoun
2022-04-01 9:12 ` Jonathan McHugh [this message]
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2022-06-29 19:01 Maxime Devos
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