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
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