Jan Nieuwenhuizen writes: > The wip-bootstrap branch now builds without binutils, gcc, and glibc seeds.
Well, I'm very sorry but I cheered just a little bit too early, as I just found out. > Thanks to #bootstrappable and #glibc and a week's work of hammering and > determination we succeeded in bootstrapping glibc-2.16.0. This still holds, and we can also build gnu-make-boot0, diffutils-boot0, file-boot0, binutils-boot0 using this glibc! > This glibc is recent enough to bootstrap GuixSD! Well, not just yet as I found out. Building libstdc++-boot0@4.9.4 with gcc-4.7.4 and glibc-2.16.0 fails with --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- /gnu/store/7swwdnq02lqk4xkd8740fxdj1h4va38l-bootstrap-binaries-0/bin/bash ../libtool --tag CXX --mode=compile g++ -I/tmp/guix-build-libstdc++-boot0-4.9.4.drv-0/gcc-4.9.4/build/include/ -I/tmp/guix-build-libstdc++-boot0-4.9.4.drv-0/gcc-4.9.4/build/include -I/tmp/guix-build-libstdc++-boot0-4.9.4.drv-0/gcc-4.9.4/libstdc++-v3/libsupc++ -fno-implicit-templates -Wall -Wextra -Wwrite-strings -Wcast-qual -Wabi -fdiagnostics-show-location=once -ffunction-sections -fdata-sections -frandom-seed=compatibility-atomic-c++0x.lo -std=gnu++11 -c ../../libstdc++-v3/src/c++11/compatibility-atomic-c++0x.cc In file included from /tmp/guix-build-libstdc++-boot0-4.9.4.drv-0/gcc-4.9.4/build/include/bits/move.h:57:0, from /tmp/guix-build-libstdc++-boot0-4.9.4.drv-0/gcc-4.9.4/build/include/bits/stl_pair.h:59, from /tmp/guix-build-libstdc++-boot0-4.9.4.drv-0/gcc-4.9.4/build/include/bits/stl_algobase.h:64, from /tmp/guix-build-libstdc++-boot0-4.9.4.drv-0/gcc-4.9.4/build/include/bits/char_traits.h:39, from /tmp/guix-build-libstdc++-boot0-4.9.4.drv-0/gcc-4.9.4/build/include/string:40, from ../../libstdc++-v3/src/c++11/compatibility-c++0x.cc:26: /tmp/guix-build-libstdc++-boot0-4.9.4.drv-0/gcc-4.9.4/build/include/type_traits:395:44: error: template argument 1 is invalid /tmp/guix-build-libstdc++-boot0-4.9.4.drv-0/gcc-4.9.4/build/include/type_traits:399:45: error: template argument 1 is invalid --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- So, I tried building libstdc++-boot0@4.8.5. I'm not sure if that's recent enough to build our main gcc-5, but at least it could be a necessary intermediate step. This fails in phase `install' --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- make[3]: Leaving directory '/tmp/guix-build-libstdc++-boot0-4.8.5.drv-0/gcc-4.8.5/build/src/c++11' make[2]: Leaving directory '/tmp/guix-build-libstdc++-boot0-4.8.5.drv-0/gcc-4.8.5/build/src/c++11' make[2]: Entering directory '/tmp/guix-build-libstdc++-boot0-4.8.5.drv-0/gcc-4.8.5/build/src' make[3]: Entering directory '/tmp/guix-build-libstdc++-boot0-4.8.5.drv-0/gcc-4.8.5/build/src' test -z "/gnu/store/g34qpy7754azqi9f218kbpli86nwwhl9-libstdc++-boot0-4.8.5/lib" || /gnu/store/7swwdnq02lqk4xkd8740fxdj1h4va38l-bootstrap-binaries-0/bin/mkdir -p "/gnu/store/g34qpy7754azqi9f218kbpli86nwwhl9-libstdc++-boot0-4.8.5/lib" /gnu/store/7swwdnq02lqk4xkd8740fxdj1h4va38l-bootstrap-binaries-0/bin/bash ../libtool --mode=install /gnu/store/7swwdnq02lqk4xkd8740fxdj1h4va38l-bootstrap-binaries-0/bin/install -c libstdc++.la '/gnu/store/g34qpy7754azqi9f218kbpli86nwwhl9-libstdc++-boot0-4.8.5/lib' libtool: install: /gnu/store/7swwdnq02lqk4xkd8740fxdj1h4va38l-bootstrap-binaries-0/bin/install -c .libs/libstdc++.so.6.0.19 /gnu/store/g34qpy7754azqi9f218kbpli86nwwhl9-libstdc++-boot0-4.8.5/lib/libstdc++.so.6.0.19 /gnu/store/7swwdnq02lqk4xkd8740fxdj1h4va38l-bootstrap-binaries-0/bin/install: cannot stat '.libs/libstdc++.so.6.0.19': No such file or directory make[3]: *** [Makefile:516: install-toolexeclibLTLIBRARIES] Error 1 make[3]: Leaving directory '/tmp/guix-build-libstdc++-boot0-4.8.5.drv-0/gcc-4.8.5/build/src' make[2]: *** [Makefile:716: install-am] Error 2 make[2]: Leaving directory '/tmp/guix-build-libstdc++-boot0-4.8.5.drv-0/gcc-4.8.5/build/src' make[1]: *** [Makefile:575: install-recursive] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory '/tmp/guix-build-libstdc++-boot0-4.8.5.drv-0/gcc-4.8.5/build/src' make: *** [Makefile:480: install-recursive] Error 1 --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- Feeling slightly discouraged, but I will hammer on. We're getting closer and closer... janneke -- Jan Nieuwenhuizen <jann...@gnu.org> | GNU LilyPond http://lilypond.org Freelance IT http://JoyofSource.com | AvatarĀ® http://AvatarAcademy.com