-[ Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 10:31:31AM +0100, Andy Wingo ]---- > If I bootstrap Guile-X from Guile-Y, I have to make sure that Guile-X's > code can load in Guile-Y -- not trivial -- and I have to trust the > output of Guile-Y.
You have to make sure that the evaluator that's written in scheme can be run by Guile-Y. This evaluator migh as well be written to be runnable by many other scheme implementations, if you really do not trust Guile :-) This is how GHC is bootstrapped BTW, any sufficiently standard haskell compiler can do it. > If I bootstrap Guile-X from GCC, I have to trust GCC. And the code for this C evaluator that's almost used nowhere thus probably much less tested than the rest of Guile. > You can use GUILE_FOR_BUILD if you want to speed things up. That's nice, will try it.
