Hi Jan, Jan Nieuwenhuizen <jann...@gnu.org> writes:
> The plan is to have Guile and Gash initially replace all coreutils&co > and build them from source early in the bootstrap phase, right after > having built tcc and GNU make. We have managed to build GNU make > without any dependency on any of the tool you mention (except for > Guile). > > We're not there yet, gash cannot build mes or tcc. Also, the latest mes > 0.18 release cannot support buillding bash yet. Lots of fun hacking > todo! I wanted to let you know that I’ve been doing more work on the little Shell backend that we were talking about earlier. It’s kind of like the worse-is-better version of Gash: it is certainly not as nice, but the development pace is much faster. I did take a look at just working on Gash directly, but it looked like it was going to be a lot slower. So, keeping in mind that software estimates are very unreliable, I would say that I might have a workable interpreter in the next week or two. There are three big features missing: globbing, asynchronous commands, and arithmetic substitutions. I am almost finished globbing, asynchronous commands should be pretty easy, and I plan to leave arithmetic substitutions on the road-map for as long as possible (it’s a little bit boring). After I get those first two features working, I am going to start testing running build scripts for Bash. I will contact you then in case you have any new advice on which scripts are important or anything else. > Greetings, > janneke -- Tim
