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[PATCH] gnu: ocaml-4.07: Bootstrap.

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From: Julien Lepiller <julien <at> lepiller.eu>
To: pukkamustard <pukkamustard <at> posteo.net>
Cc: 46806 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: [bug#46806] [PATCH] gnu: ocaml-4.07: Bootstrap.
Date: Sun, 28 Feb 2021 05:57:10 -0500

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Would be fantastic if you could report build time for camlboot too :). The result should be almost identical to our current ocaml-4.07, though there are some due to different output directory being embedded.

Le 28 février 2021 04:19:09 GMT-05:00, pukkamustard <pukkamustard <at> posteo.net> a écrit :
>
>Fantastic! Thank you and thanks to the camlboot project! I will 
>try and
>build this tonight.
>
>Julien Lepiller <julien <at> lepiller.eu> writes:
>
>> 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).

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