Subject: Re: [bug#40908] [PATCH core-updates 5/5] gnu: make-bootstrap: Do not export %GUILE-STATIC-STRIPPED.
From: Marius Bakke <[email-masked]>
To: Ludovic Courtès <[email-masked]>
Cc: [email-masked]
Date: Fri, 01 May 2020 22:16:14 +0200
List-Id: <debbugs-submit.debbugs.gnu.org>

Ludovic Courtès <[email-masked]> writes:

> Hi,
>
> Marius Bakke <[email-masked]> skribis:
>
>> * gnu/packages/make-bootstrap.scm (%guile-static-stripped): Remove export.
>> ---
>>  gnu/packages/make-bootstrap.scm | 4 +---
>>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/gnu/packages/make-bootstrap.scm b/gnu/packages/make-bootstrap.scm
>> index 443e778824..981c7aa24e 100644
>> --- a/gnu/packages/make-bootstrap.scm
>> +++ b/gnu/packages/make-bootstrap.scm
>> @@ -56,9 +56,7 @@
>>              %guile-bootstrap-tarball
>>              %mescc-tools-bootstrap-tarball
>>              %mes-bootstrap-tarball
>> -            %bootstrap-tarballs
>> -
>> -            %guile-static-stripped))
>
> Are you sure it’s unused?
>
> Actually, what about simply adding ‘%guile-3.0-static-stripped’ right in
> this file?  I think it would work, right?  And we could also keep
> ‘make-guile-static’ private.

Right, that is better.  Done!

> Apart from this, the patch series LGTM!  Pretty exciting to have a JIT
> in the initrd.  ;-)

Heh, my main motivation for these patches was to remove scary warnings
about incompatible bytecode during boot, but we also boot faster as a
side effect!  :-)

Patches pushed!

I think we are pretty close to actually merging this branch now..!