Hello Michael, On Mon, Jul 06, 2026 at 09:15:36PM +0000, Michael Ackermann via Tinycc-devel wrote: > > A complete Posix-like system, i.e. including its kernel, utility programs > > and compilers, created as a reproducible binary, without reliance on > > _any_ specific binary blobs, is available since several years ago from > > the VSOBFS project. > > So far live-bootstrap is the only known complete(!!!) system bootstrap > (involving tinycc).
I have to assume that you mean some very specific definition of "complete". > Feel free to present your VSOBFS proposal to #bootstrappable people who > typically welcome all alternative approaches to discuss limitations of any 1. VSOBFS is not a proposal but a long ago completed project. 2. People from bootstrappable.org are not welcoming approaches which show that the use of binary seeds is gratuitous. > (for that matter there is limitations with live-bootstrap too but the > developers > are honest about those). Correct. According to the live-bootstrap README[1]: "Currently, there is no way to perform the bootstrap without external preparations! This is a currently unsolved problem." Remarkably, this is a problem which does not seem to have a solution? Regards /tccm [1] https://raw.githubusercontent.com/fosslinux/live-bootstrap/refs/heads/master/README.rst _______________________________________________ Tinycc-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/tinycc-devel
