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Bootstrapping Zig with no Binary Blobs

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From: Hilton Chain <hako <at> ultrarare.space>
To: 74217 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Cc: Motiejus Jakštys <motiejus <at> jakstys.lt>, Noé Lopez <noe <at> xn--no-cja.eu>, dan <i <at> dan.games>, Efraim Flashner <efraim <at> flashner.co.il>, Ekaitz Zarraga <ekaitz <at> elenq.tech>
Subject: bug#74217: Bootstrapping Zig with no Binary Blobs
Date: Thu, 28 Nov 2024 19:08:09 +0800

I started to learn Zig these days and adjusted patches for Zig a bit.

Other than this, I have added a install-source? argument to zig-build-system, it
can now install package source to "/src/<name>-<version>".

"-Dtarget" is used in zig-build-system's native builds as well, same as Zig for
reproducibility.

Made "#:zig-inputs" a private keyword, its value will be passed to inputs like
cargo-build-system (the build system doesn't extract the whole closure for now,
this can be added in the future depending on how Zig ecosystem develops).

Set ZIG_GLOBAL_CACHE_DIR and ZIG_LOCAL_CACHE_DIR to "/tmp/zig-cache", and set
ZIG_LIBC instead of using "zig build --libc", for convenience.

I think this is mostly ready ( again :) ).  If there's nothing else missing,
I'll post the current status and call for packages to test the build system on
guix-devel, together with the concern on generated files.

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