Re: Re-using bootstrap in the half-strap

2016-10-26 Thread Christopher Allan Webber
Ludovic Courtès writes: > Hi! > > Christopher Allan Webber skribis: > >> If you could package *just* the bootstrapped compiler, if a user doesn't >> feel like waiting through the whole bootstrap process, they could use >> the existing bootstrap package, like: >> >> ./configure --with-bootstrap=

Re: Re-using bootstrap in the half-strap

2016-10-25 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi! Christopher Allan Webber skribis: > If you could package *just* the bootstrapped compiler, if a user doesn't > feel like waiting through the whole bootstrap process, they could use > the existing bootstrap package, like: > > ./configure --with-bootstrap=/path/to/guile-bootstrap That’s ess

Re: Re-using bootstrap in the half-strap

2016-10-24 Thread Mathieu Lirzin
Hello, Christopher Allan Webber writes: > A thought this morning... one challenge with Guile's 2.1 branch is it > takes a log time to bootstrap. There are good reasons for this, and > Andy Wingo has documented them: > > > http://wingolog.org/archives/2016/01/11/the-half-strap-self-hostin

Re-using bootstrap in the half-strap

2016-10-24 Thread Christopher Allan Webber
Hello, A thought this morning... one challenge with Guile's 2.1 branch is it takes a log time to bootstrap. There are good reasons for this, and Andy Wingo has documented them: http://wingolog.org/archives/2016/01/11/the-half-strap-self-hosting-and-guile However, I can't help but wonder i