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[bug#33038] [PATCH 6/6] doc: Update Preparing to Use the Bootstrap Binar
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Ludovic Courtès |
Subject: |
[bug#33038] [PATCH 6/6] doc: Update Preparing to Use the Bootstrap Binaries. |
Date: |
Fri, 19 Oct 2018 23:37:27 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.1 (gnu/linux) |
Jan Nieuwenhuizen <address@hidden> 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 Library
> +and Binutils by MesCC-Tools (a simple hex linker and macro assembler) and Mes
> +(a Scheme interpreter and a C99 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 GuixSD are now bootstrapped without any binary C compiler.
s/GuixSD/Guix packages/
Perhaps add an @pxref for Mes?
> +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’t believe this is a reality, awesome!! :-)
Ludo’.
- [bug#33038] bootstrap: Regeneration of Mes bootstrap seeds., Jan Nieuwenhuizen, 2018/10/14
- [bug#33038] [PATCH 3/6] bootstrap: Add %bootstrap-mes., Jan Nieuwenhuizen, 2018/10/14
- [bug#33038] [PATCH 3/6] bootstrap: Add %bootstrap-mes., Ludovic Courtès, 2018/10/19
- [bug#33038] [PATCH 3/6] bootstrap: Add %bootstrap-mes., Jan Nieuwenhuizen, 2018/10/20
- [bug#33038] [PATCH 3/6] bootstrap: Add %bootstrap-mes., Jan Nieuwenhuizen, 2018/10/20
- [bug#33038] [PATCH 3/6] bootstrap: Add %bootstrap-mes., Marius Bakke, 2018/10/21
- [bug#33038] [PATCH 3/6] bootstrap: Add %bootstrap-mes., Ludovic Courtès, 2018/10/21