From: Andy Tai <atai@atai.org>
To: help-guix@gnu.org
Subject: bootstrapping scenario for a package
Date: Sun, 19 Dec 2021 23:03:25 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAJsg1E-GA-BWpv4xt2Lkj95BA2EX-a8dgPgvtVRwE+bY1vvhoQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
Hi, I was trying to update mono to the current release version. The
build step as documented actually says to download a minimal C#
compiler from the mono site which is then used to compile the rest of
the source to build the full system. I looked and did not find the
source of this minimal compiler--so it is a black box in a way.
In free software it is ideal to build everything from source. I
wonder how is such a package handled in Guix? What is the strategy
for bootstrapping? Thanks
next reply other threads:[~2021-12-20 15:57 UTC|newest]
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2021-12-20 7:03 Andy Tai [this message]
2021-12-21 14:11 ` bootstrapping scenario for a package Efraim Flashner
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