Hi! Timothy Sample <samp...@ngyro.com> skribis:
> Efraim Flashner <efr...@flashner.co.il> writes: > >> On Wed, Feb 17, 2021 at 04:16:29PM +0100, Ludovic Courtès wrote: >>> >>> Efraim Flashner <efr...@flashner.co.il> skribis: >>> >>> > On Mon, Feb 15, 2021 at 06:24:46PM +0100, Ludovic Courtès wrote: >>> >> Gash-Utils ‘uname’ seems to be confused: >>> >> >>> >> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- >>> >> $ $(guix build -e '(@@ (gnu packages commencement) >>> >> gash-utils-boot)')/bin/uname -a >>> >> Linux ribbon 5.10.10-gnu #1 SMP 1 x86_64 GNU/Linux >>> >> $ $(guix build -e '(@@ (gnu packages commencement) >>> >> gash-utils-boot)')/bin/uname -s >>> >> >>> >> $ guix describe >>> >> Generacio 175 Feb 04 2021 22:52:40 (nuna) >>> >> guix 5ae09d7 >>> >> repository URL: https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/guix.git >>> >> branch: master >>> >> commit: 5ae09d7979a0696d862b9555314eab199f7ce576 [...] > Indeed! I noticed this same issue the other day. Check out commit > 2ee2e2721367cc242ceb0e4b364468870a87f0b4: > > > https://git.savannah.nongnu.org/cgit/gash/gash-utils.git/commit/?id=2ee2e2721367cc242ceb0e4b364468870a87f0b4 Great! > I recommend that you take a look at the “wip-gcc-mesboot” branch. It > has a couple “from the hip” changes that I made while looking at getting > Gash-Utils to handle more of the work in “commencement.scm”. Last week > I was able to build to “gcc-mesboot1” with only Make, Diffutils, patch, > and Gzip (the first three were there before the “Scheme-only” bootstrap, > and Gzip saves writing “(delete 'compress-documentation)” over and > over). We should add a pure Scheme gzip implementation, for instance using the R6RS zlib implementation by Göran Weinholt in Industria. > Unfortunately, building Glibc after that is quite difficult. To do it > with Gash-Utils, we would need (at least) to support redirects in AWK > and the “-t” and “-k” flags in sort. For fun, I tried building Gawk > and Coreutils at this point (using the ancient versions that we > bootstrap with now). That let me build Glibc, but then I hit a > problem with the “po2test.sed” script while building “gcc-mesboot”. I > tried again with ancient GNU Sed, but the build seemed to hang during > a configure test. I suspect adding Bash to the mix might fix it, but > I haven’t tried yet.... Heheh, nice! Anyhow, that looks like a promising path to me. > Back to the matter at hand: I’m closing this bug since it’s already been > fixed. :) Thanks! Any plan for a release? We could upgrade the package in ‘core-updates’. Ludo’.
