From: Jan Nieuwenhuizen <janneke@gnu.org>
To: "Orians, Jeremiah (DTMB)" <OriansJ@michigan.gov>
Cc: "guix-devel@gnu.org" <guix-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: bootstrap integration strategies
Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2018 19:44:08 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87601kjqmv.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CY1PR09MB081148F46EEBBB4413DE0B6DC6590@CY1PR09MB0811.namprd09.prod.outlook.com> (Jeremiah Orians's message of "Thu, 12 Jul 2018 12:16:03 +0000")
Orians, Jeremiah (DTMB) writes:
>> Gash seems to be a low-hanging fruit and a relatively easy thing,
>> because it's architecture-independent. How
>> far is it from being able to run typical 'configure' scripts?
> Well we would have to replace the parser at a bare minimum
Yes, the parser is being refactored. It "parses" a lot of SH code, but
it proved that handling variables properly was getting really tricky.
>> This could allow us to remove quite a lot of MiBs from our binary seeds.
> FTFY
>
> At this point, we effectively have a rope bridge to full bootstrappability
Hear, hear!
> But we still have a lot of details to hammer out, like getting basic
> ARM support and having the ARM and x86 binaries verify each other's
> bootstrap;
> Hammer out cross-platform build details for MesCC and M2-Planet
These I certainly agree with! Some other archs can come later?
janneke
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-07-12 17:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-07-12 12:16 bootstrap integration strategies Orians, Jeremiah (DTMB)
2018-07-12 16:15 ` Ludovic Courtès
2018-07-12 17:10 ` Orians, Jeremiah (DTMB)
2018-07-12 17:40 ` Jan Nieuwenhuizen
2018-07-12 19:52 ` Jan Nieuwenhuizen
2018-07-13 12:20 ` Ludovic Courtès
2018-07-13 14:19 ` Jan Nieuwenhuizen
2018-07-13 18:23 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2018-07-16 11:11 ` Orians, Jeremiah (DTMB)
2018-07-16 21:37 ` Brett Gilio
2018-07-12 17:44 ` Jan Nieuwenhuizen [this message]
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2018-07-09 20:55 Jan Nieuwenhuizen
2018-07-11 13:13 ` Ludovic Courtès
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