Re: Removing compilers that cannot be bootstrapped

[taylanbayirli@gmail.com (Taylan Ulrich Bayırlı/Kammer)]

taylanbayirli@gmail.com (Taylan Ulrich "Bayırlı/Kammer") writes:

> "Thompson, David" <dthompson2@worcester.edu> writes:
>
>> Haskell, OCaml, Chicken, and other compilers that we package have a
>> serious issue that many of us are aware of: they cannot be built from
>> source!  They rely upon pre-built binaries of the same compiler.  I
>> understand that it's very inconvenient to not have these compilers
>> available to us, and all of the software that is written in their
>> respective languages, but I feel like all of our work is undermined by
>> making exceptions for them.  I would like to remove compilers that
>> don't have a bunch of dependent packages yet such as Chicken until
>> upstream fixes the issue.  But we have tons of Haskell packages and a
>> handful of OCaml packages and it would be heartbreaking to some to
>> remove all of that hard work.
>>
>> What can we possibly do to avoid being yet another distro that relies
>> on a bunch of blobs (leaving the *true* bootstrap binaries out of it
>> for now)?
>
> A while back Mark raised the idea of hosting one pre-compiled bootstrap
> version of each such compiler, and use that to compile further versions.

I now found Mark's mail in the archive:

https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2015-02/msg00814.html

Taylan