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Re: bootstrap integration strategies
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Jan Nieuwenhuizen |
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Re: bootstrap integration strategies |
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Thu, 12 Jul 2018 19:44:08 +0200 |
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Orians, Jeremiah (DTMB) writes:
>> Gash seems to be a low-hanging fruit and a relatively easy thing,
>> because it's architecture-independent. How
>> far is it from being able to run typical 'configure' scripts?
> Well we would have to replace the parser at a bare minimum
Yes, the parser is being refactored. It "parses" a lot of SH code, but
it proved that handling variables properly was getting really tricky.
>> This could allow us to remove quite a lot of MiBs from our binary seeds.
> FTFY
>
> At this point, we effectively have a rope bridge to full bootstrappability
Hear, hear!
> But we still have a lot of details to hammer out, like getting basic
> ARM support and having the ARM and x86 binaries verify each other's
> bootstrap;
> Hammer out cross-platform build details for MesCC and M2-Planet
These I certainly agree with! Some other archs can come later?
janneke
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- Re: bootstrap integration strategies, (continued)
- Re: bootstrap integration strategies, Orians, Jeremiah (DTMB), 2018/07/12
- Re: bootstrap integration strategies, Ludovic Courtès, 2018/07/12
- RE: bootstrap integration strategies, Orians, Jeremiah (DTMB), 2018/07/12
- Re: bootstrap integration strategies, Jan Nieuwenhuizen, 2018/07/12
- Re: bootstrap integration strategies, Jan Nieuwenhuizen, 2018/07/12
- Re: bootstrap integration strategies, Ludovic Courtès, 2018/07/13
- Re: bootstrap integration strategies, Jan Nieuwenhuizen, 2018/07/13
- Re: bootstrap integration strategies, Ricardo Wurmus, 2018/07/13
- RE: bootstrap integration strategies, Orians, Jeremiah (DTMB), 2018/07/16
- Re: bootstrap integration strategies, Brett Gilio, 2018/07/16
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