Le Sat, 27 Feb 2021 00:13:39 +0100, Julien Lepiller a écrit : > Hi Guix! > > This small series adds camlboot, a project to reimplement a bootstrap > for OCaml, which lets us remove the pre-built boot/ocaml{c,lex} :) > > The first patch builds the bootstraped ocamlc and ocamllex. This takes > around 4 hours to build. The second patch rebuilds them using the > source code for ocaml 4.07.1, instead of the modified sources used in > camlboot, and reuse them to run the main Makefile (make world.opt). > > As a result, we have identical files for this bootstrap and the > unbootstrapped OCaml (up to output store paths and hash of some files > that get embedded in native files, which differ because of the > different output path). Here's the second version of the series: the first patch is unchanged, the second patch is slightly better: the bootstrap ocaml 4.07 now run "make alldepends" to generate all the .depend files, and installs them to its output at share/depends. Then, ocaml-4.07 simply copies the bootstrap data from this package (ocamlc, ocamllex, ocamlrun and all the .depends) that were deleted from the archive, since they were pre-generated. I feel much better about this patch than the previous one. Thoughts?