On 28/07/17 10:57, Steve Mynott wrote: > Yes we ship binary blobs to bootstrap. I spent a day trying to > reproduce the current binary blobs and it's not possible. Well maybe > it is possible if you reproduce the exact directory (Windows) > directory structure of the original build system and spoof the system > clock but its an incredibly difficult process and quite frankly a > waste of thing right now since there are more pressing issues like bug > fixing, speed increases and wider adoption of perl 6.
It looks like the only thing you need to fake here is the build directory? I got the exact same files doing "make m-bootstrap-files" twice with a pause of about a minute in between. Maybe we need one last bootstrap files update to get that behaviour for the future.
