Re: Bootstrapping GT.M
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- Subject: Re: Bootstrapping GT.M
- From: Petter Reinholdtsen <pere@hungry.com>
- Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2008 11:46:57 +0100
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[Andreas Tille]
> Any idea how to solve this problem? Any volunteers to package GT.M?
What about providing the generated files in the initial upload? The
files can them be used to bootstrap the system on the autobuilders.
The initial upload can't build-depend on itself, but when it is built,
the next upload can build-depend on the previous version of itself.
Gcc compiles itself several times during bootstrapping, first a
minimal version that can use almost any C compiler, then itself with
the minimal version, and finally itself with the full version of
itself. Perhaps something similar should be done with GT.M? I
realize that the situation is different as there is no M compiler
included by default in Debian.
Happy hacking,
--
Petter Reinholdtsen
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