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icedtea-3 binaries contain references to icedtea-2

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From: Leo Famulari <leo <at> famulari.name>
To: Gábor Boskovits <boskovits <at> gmail.com>
Cc: Ricardo Wurmus <rekado <at> elephly.net>, 31719 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#31719: icedtea-3 binaries contain references to icedtea-2
Date: Tue, 5 Jun 2018 08:45:03 -0400

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On Tue, Jun 05, 2018 at 01:49:12PM +0200, Gábor Boskovits wrote:
> Do you think we can do something like rebuild icedtea3 with icedtea3, and
> then rewrite the references? I guess this way the dependency loop could be
> broken, as we could detach the last icedtea3 build from the packages used
> for bootstrapping.

If the references are not important (that is, if they are not used), we
could also rewrite them to something that doesn't exist. Currently the
go-build-system does this so that Go executables don't refer to the Go
compiler, which is very large.

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