From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:58280) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gDmYF-00031f-Tw for guix-patches@gnu.org; Sat, 20 Oct 2018 04:24:04 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gDmYF-0005BV-5w for guix-patches@gnu.org; Sat, 20 Oct 2018 04:24:03 -0400 Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.43]:55979) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gDmYF-0005BJ-1b for guix-patches@gnu.org; Sat, 20 Oct 2018 04:24:03 -0400 Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1gDmYE-0002PB-Th for guix-patches@gnu.org; Sat, 20 Oct 2018 04:24:02 -0400 Subject: [bug#33038] [PATCH 6/6] doc: Update Preparing to Use the Bootstrap Binaries. Resent-Message-ID: From: Jan Nieuwenhuizen References: <20181014085857.3863-1-janneke@gnu.org> <20181014085857.3863-6-janneke@gnu.org> <87efcld3e0.fsf@gnu.org> Date: Sat, 20 Oct 2018 10:23:21 +0200 In-Reply-To: <87efcld3e0.fsf@gnu.org> ("Ludovic \=\?utf-8\?Q\?Court\=C3\=A8s\=22'\?\= \=\?utf-8\?Q\?s\?\= message of "Fri, 19 Oct 2018 23:37:27 +0200") Message-ID: <87woqd9gcm.fsf@gnu.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-patches-bounces+kyle=kyleam.com@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-patches" To: Ludovic =?UTF-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?= Cc: 33038@debbugs.gnu.org Ludovic Court=C3=A8s writes: > Jan Nieuwenhuizen skribis: > >> * doc/guix.texi (Preparing to Use the Bootstrap Binaries): Mention >> bootstrap-mes alongside bootstrap-gcc. >> (Reducing the Set of Bootstrap Binaries): Mention the Reduced Binary Seed >> bootstrap, MesCC-Tools and Mes. > > LGTM! > >> +Our first major achievement is the replacement of of GCC, the GNU C Lib= rary >> +and Binutils by MesCC-Tools (a simple hex linker and macro assembler) a= nd Mes >> +(a Scheme interpreter and a C99 compiler in Scheme). Neither MesCC-Too= ls nor >> +Mes can be fully bootstrapped yet and thus we inject them as binary see= ds. We >> +call this the Reduced Binary Seed bootstrap, as it has halved the size = of our >> +bootstrap binaries! Also, it has eliminated the C compiler binary; i68= 6-linux >> +and x86_64-linux GuixSD are now bootstrapped without any binary C compi= ler. > > s/GuixSD/Guix packages/ > Perhaps add an @pxref for Mes? Ah, sure. Changed to +Our first major achievement is the replacement of of GCC, the GNU C Library +and Binutils by MesCC-Tools (a simple hex linker and macro assembler) and = Mes +(@pxref{Top, GNU Mes Reference Manual,, mes, GNU Mes}, a Scheme interpreter +and C compiler in Scheme). Neither MesCC-Tools nor Mes can be fully +bootstrapped yet and thus we inject them as binary seeds. We call this the +Reduced Binary Seed bootstrap, as it has halved the size of our bootstrap +binaries! Also, it has eliminated the C compiler binary; i686-linux and +x86_64-linux Guix packages are now bootstrapped without any binary C compi= ler. Updated on gitlab/core-updates-next, "waiting" for the builds to say OK :-) >> +Work is ongoing to make MesCC-Tools and Mes fully bootstrappable and we= are >> +also looking at any other bootstrap binaries. Your help is welcome! > > I still can=E2=80=99t believe this is a reality, awesome!! :-) Thank you, yes -- what a long road from the initial Mes announcement! Than= ks to all the help from #bootstrappable and from yourself. And this is only the beginning... :-) janneke