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 -- Jan Nieuwenhuizen <jann...@gnu.org> | GNU LilyPond http://lilypond.org Freelance IT http://JoyofSource.com | Avatar® http://AvatarAcademy.com
