Hello! Alex Griffin <a...@ajgrf.com> skribis:
> One thing I think the Guix project should do is work with the > reproducible builds folks to publish a document explaining the issues > involved with self-hosted compilers. It should encourage language > communities to continuously maintain some way to build their language > starting from hand-written C source code (or another language which can > itself be bootstrapped from C). It could also mention that some members > of our community are exploring ways to bootstrap gcc. > > What do you think? It might be a total flop, but it looks like something > we should try anyway! At the moment I do not see other communities > talking about this. Guix is deeply concerned about these issues, but > ultimately we cannot fix everything alone. If we can convince the > Rust/OCaml/Haskell folks that this is important, we may be able to > attract a much larger group of people to bear on the problem. I think it’s a good idea! A lot of the work to fix this issue will be to raise awareness among compiler writers and invite them to have a bootstrapping story like you describe. Other people in the reproducible-builds community are interested in this so yes, it sounds like the right place to discuss it. Would you like to get it started? :-) We could discuss it on rb-gene...@lists.reproducible-builds.org¹ and here. Thanks, Ludo’. ¹ http://lists.reproducible-builds.org/pipermail/rb-general/
