Hello, Simon Josefsson <[email protected]> skribis:
> I like that Guix is moving to a preference for non-'make dist' tarballs! Glad you like the idea! > I have suspected that this could lead to some really complex circular or > cross-compile/bootstrap problems, and that we eventually for some small > set of packages could end up believing that a 'make dist' tarball is the > lesser of all evils after all. But I hope that my fear here is wrong. I’m afraid as well: it’s unclear to me whether/how we’ll be able to build the toolchain without pre-built ‘configure’ & co. I’m hopeful because live-bootstrap mostly succeeded apparently, but in some cases the solution amounts to rewriting a build system for the package at hand, especially for those packages built before Autoconf. Ludo’.
