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Re: [platform-testers] new snapshot available: coreutils-8.31.90-cc4c.ta
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Jan Nieuwenhuizen |
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Re: [platform-testers] new snapshot available: coreutils-8.31.90-cc4c.tar.xz |
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Fri, 28 Feb 2020 21:40:28 +0100 |
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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.
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> 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
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