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[bug#54394] [PATCH core-updates 00/12] Remove old GNU utilities from ear
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Ludovic Courtès |
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[bug#54394] [PATCH core-updates 00/12] Remove old GNU utilities from early bootstrap |
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Wed, 16 Mar 2022 18:25:01 +0100 |
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Hello!
Timothy Sample <samplet@ngyro.com> skribis:
> This is culmination of a lot of work, so I’m excited to be submitting
> it! The main thrust of this series is to update Gash and Gash-Utils,
> and then remove most of the old GNU utilities we use during early
> bootstrap. To elaborate, the current situation is that we climb a
> ladder through time: first we build Bash 2, then we build Bash 4, and
> finally we build Bash 5. This is true for most GNU utilities: Sed,
> Gawk, Coreutils, etc. The reason? Until now, our Scheme
> implementations of those utilities (Gash and Gash-Utils) were very
> limited. Bash 2 used to be a lot more useful then Gash, for example.
> Now, with recent releases of Gash and Gash-Utils, the Scheme utilities
> are, in general, capable of powering the builds of modern GNU software.
Woohoo! Shortening the ladder, and doing it “the nice way”, is a much
welcome improvement.
> To be clear, we still climb the time-ladder in a few cases. The main
> ones are GCC, Glibc, and Binutils. For example, we have to use GCC 2 to
> transition from TCC To GCC 4 (which is the last non-C++ GCC [1]).
> Fixing this would require quite a bit of TCC hacking, I imagine. There
> are others, though. We still use old versions of Gzip, Make, patch, and
> Gawk. The fact that Gawk is still there disappoints me quite a bit, but
> ‘glibc-mesboot’ fails in a way that I just can’t figure out when
> building with Gash-Utils. Gzip is not strictly necessary, but also
> pretty easy to replace. I’m not sure, but I think patch is only there
> to avoid using patches in ‘origin’ records during bootstrap. We now
> have a way to do that, so it may no longer be necessary. Make will
> likely need to be rewritten in Scheme, but we have a head start: Potato
> Make [2].
>
> [1] https://bootstrappable.org/projects.html
> [2] https://github.com/spk121/potato-make
Yes, the C compiler situation is tricky; Make looks like a fun target.
[...]
> The next three are updates. The bootar update optimistically assumes
> that someone with access will upload the source file to the Guix mirror
> URL: “mirror://gnu/guix/...” as was done with previous versions.
Sure.
> 5 files changed, 192 insertions(+), 788 deletions(-)
Yay!
Ludo’.
- [bug#54394] [PATCH core-updates 06/12] gnu: gash: Update to 0.3.0., (continued)
- [bug#54394] [PATCH core-updates 06/12] gnu: gash: Update to 0.3.0., Timothy Sample, 2022/03/14
- [bug#54394] [PATCH core-updates 07/12] gnu: gash-utils-boot: Create 'echo' wrapper., Timothy Sample, 2022/03/14
- [bug#54394] [PATCH core-updates 08/12] gnu: bzip2-mesboot: Remove package., Timothy Sample, 2022/03/14
- [bug#54394] [PATCH core-updates 05/12] gnu: bootar: Update to 1b., Timothy Sample, 2022/03/14
- [bug#54394] [PATCH core-updates 10/12] gnu: binutils-mesboot0: Update to 2.20.1a., Timothy Sample, 2022/03/14
- [bug#54394] [PATCH core-updates 11/12] gnu: %boot-tcc-inputs: Remove extra "gash-utils"., Timothy Sample, 2022/03/14
- [bug#54394] [PATCH core-updates 12/12] gnu: commencement: Remove many old utilities., Timothy Sample, 2022/03/14
- [bug#54394] [PATCH core-updates 09/12] gnu: sed-mesboot0: Remove package., Timothy Sample, 2022/03/14
- [bug#54394] [PATCH core-updates 00/12] Remove old GNU utilities from early bootstrap,
Ludovic Courtès <=
- [bug#54394] [PATCH core-updates 00/12] Remove old GNU utilities from early bootstrap, Ludovic Courtès, 2022/03/16
- [bug#54394] [PATCH core-updates 00/12] Remove old GNU utilities from early bootstrap, Jan Nieuwenhuizen, 2022/03/20