3.1 The Mes Bootstrap Process

The Full Source Bootstrap currently adopted by Guix¹³. In its intiial form it is only available for x86-linux.

Currently, it goes like this:

 gcc-mesboot (4.9.4)
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 (...)
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 binutils-mesboot (2.20.1a), glibc-mesboot (2.2.5),
 gcc-core-mesboot (2.95.3)
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 patch-mesboot (2.5.9)
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 bootstrappable-tcc (0.9.26+31 patches)
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 gnu-make-mesboot0 (3.80)
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 gzip-mesboot (1.2.4)
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 tcc-boot (0.9.27)
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 mes-boot (0.24.2)
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 stage0-posix (hex0..M2-Planet)
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 gash-boot, gash-utils-boot
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 *
 bootstrap-seeds (357-bytes for x86)
 ~~~
 [bootstrap-guile-2.0.9 driver (~25 MiB)]

Here’s a generated dependency diagram to for the initial bootstrap gcc that builds the rest of Guix.

For now, this additional non-bootstrapped dependencies (i.e., binary seeds) are taken for granted

bootstrap-guile

Our next priority is to eliminate the dependency on bootstrap-guile for Gash and Gash-Utils, and thus for Mes.

• Full Source Bootstrap Deployments

Footnotes

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See gnu/packages/commencement.scm in the master branch in Guix git https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git/tree/gnu/packages/commencement.scm