Pádraig Brady writes: >> Would you be willing to also provide a GZIP compressed version of future >> sed releases too? (patch attached). ... >> For some background see this blog post >> https://guix.gnu.org/blog/2019/guix-reduces-bootstrap-seed-by-50/, the >> next reduction will remove programs like sed from the bootstrap seed. >> XZ can only be built after we have a fairly recent GCC and glibc. > > Interesting. Would xz require much tweaking to target older systems?
Neither xz-5.0.0 (used in the bootstrap) nor the more current 5.2.4 can be built with a simple compiler (like tcc); it depends on a fairly recent gcc 4, and thus fairly recent glibc. Those are not trivial to bootstrap from source. > Given coreutils is quite fundamental, let's provide a gzipped tarball for now. Thank you! Greetings, janneke -- Jan Nieuwenhuizen <jann...@gnu.org> | GNU LilyPond http://lilypond.org Freelance IT http://JoyofSource.com | Avatar® http://AvatarAcademy.com
