Re: [bootstrappable] Re: wip-full-source-bootstrap: from a 357-byte `hex0' to 'hello'

[Jan Nieuwenhuizen]

Efraim Flashner writes:

Hi!

> On Wed, Jan 20, 2021 at 03:19:49PM -0500, Timothy Sample wrote:
>> Hi janneke,
>> 
>> Jan Nieuwenhuizen <janneke@gnu.org> writes:
>> 
>> It looks like you’ve made a lot of progress on this already (judging by
>> the rest of this thread).  However, if it helps, the current Gash-Utils
>> awk could _probably_ be used to skip most (all?) of the old versions of
>> Gawk.
>> 
>> Sorry I can’t be more helpful ATM.  I appreciate the work you do to keep
>> this project rolling!
>> 
>
> Using this post as inspiration I replaced diffutils-mesboot with
> gash-utils-boot. diffutils-mesboot provided cmp and diff, both of which
> are available in gash-utils.

Oh, that's nice.  It would be good to get rid of as much unspported
software releases as we can.

> Unfortunately sed from gash-utils-boot
> didn't seem to work so I wasn't able to remove that.

Yeah, distilling a nice bug report for that can take quite some time.

Greetigns,
Janneke

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