> Thinking about it, what I want to achieve is that we can take the > latest git tree and bootstrap by building guix and packages. This > should be easy, since I have guix running, but it is not. And the main > trouble is that the underlying build packages can differ over time. I > am looking at gcc versions and guile versions. I.e., we are building > on shifting sands. How unguixy!
It is worse than that, Janneke and I are still trying to build out a full source bootstrap. Now mind you we have gotten quite a bit down that rabbit hole. ( I've build from a hex monitor to a Lexically scoped garbage compacting/collecting lisp and Janneke built his rather impressive MES which already supports large parts of the C language and enough to bootstrap some rather important pieces) But there still are many gaps left to close (how to bootstrap a 280 byte hex monitor without a hex monitor or hex assembler, stage0-vm downstrapping, MES tinycc bootstrapping, MES lisp bootstrapping, etc) but ultimately shifting sands are the only grounds we can be certain will be there. So we better get comfortable minimizing our assumptions. -Jeremiah
