[bug#38390] [bug #38390] Building bootstrap Gash and Gash-Utils

[Jan Nieuwenhuizen <janneke@gnu.org>]

Ludovic Courtès writes:

Hello!

I have rebased wip-bootstrap on core-updates that include your
commencements updates.

With your explanations on irc and studying your patch, I was able to
keep using your cleanups and do without the most ugly 'setenv stages.

So, wip-bootstrap on savannah is reset once again.

> Timothy Sample <samplet@ngyro.com> skribis:
>
>> Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> writes:

>> I would be happy to do that.  It’s nice having everything in one place,
>> but having a bootstrap build system would certainly make the packages
>> clearer.  I suppose it could also get rid of the implicit inputs for us
>> and use “%bootstrap-guile” by default.
>
> I doesn’t have to be a full-blown build system, because there might be
> as much boilerplate as actual code, but simply moving the definitions of
> phases in a separate file could help keep commencement.scm clear.
>
>>> I guess the only thing that remains to be done is changing the temporary
>>> URLs to the self-extracting script & co., right?
>>
>> Yup.  I’ll release both packages soon.
>
> Great, thank you!

Yes, that's great!

@Timothy: I haven't included your previous patches on `wip-bootstrap',
feel free to push them to wip-bootstrap.

We are getting real close to merging this, I think.

Greetings,
janneke

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