Thanks for the update! Sometimes it unfortunately feels like Foresight is a little bit dormant, so it's nice to hear about the future plans from time to time.
// Roger On 11 okt 2013 17:08 "Rune Morling" <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > > I just poked António about the current state of his FL3 work, as > things > have been rather quiet on that front lately. He mentioned that he's > currently quite busy with family related issues, but he was kind > enough > to give me a quick heads up, which I have edited and included here. > > > FL3 Notes from António > ====================== > > """ > The main difference from what I have locally vs. what was pushed -- > besides fixing a few stupid cross bootstrap bugs (building x86-64 from > x86) -- is that I included Perl in Stage 1. > > As you may know, Autoconf/Automake/M4/etc. rely on Perl and having > Perl > in Stage 1 simplifies things a lot, as it helps in two areas: > > * We get to unroll a ton of later loops in later stages > * We avoid the need to have an intermediate flavor > (besides bootstrap/!bootstrap) in Stage 2. > > It also allows us to have the Autoconf stuff built in Stage 1 as well, > which is of course also helpful. > > But as Perl byDefault is not at all cross friendly, I had to resort to > using a cross-compile friendly Perl build solution, a description of > which can be found at <http://perlcross.berlios.de/usage.html> > > Additionally, a side goal would be to be able to cross-compile /to/ > any > target /from/ any arch we happen to be in, in a single pass, with the > single requirement of having the ability to run an rmake-node instance > natively in whatever arch we're currently on. > """ > > > I don't know about you, but I think the above sounds pretty cool and I > positively can't wait to see it in praxis! > > António also mentioned that I might want to check out the comments he > made at the bottom of the bootstrap:core group recipe. The > instructions > on how to check out his work can be found at: > > <http://wiki.foresightlinux.org/wiki/x/eYDt> > > (look for the "How can I check out the bootstrap recipes myself ?" > paragraph). > > By the way, is there a way to make the new bootstrap:core repo easily > browsable via a webfront-end somehow? I think it would be nice for > other people, who might not have access to a conary-based system, to > be > able to browse around for curiousity's sake? > > > /Rune > _______________________________________________ > Foresight-devel mailing list > <[email protected]> > <https://lists.foresightlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/foresight-devel> _______________________________________________ Foresight-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.foresightlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/foresight-devel
