Re: [9front] Staying up-to-date

[Stanley Lieber <sl@stanleylieber.com>]

On June 12, 2024 3:34:09 PM EDT, Ori Bernstein <ori@eigenstate.org> wrote:
>The rootstub script does exactly what it says on the tin: it stubs out the root dir. Basically, it compensates for git not having a good way to store empty directories. It's more or less only ever needed if we add new architectures.
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>Another script could be added, but it's not obvious to me what it should do, and it's not at the top of my priority list to figure it out.
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>These kinds of manual step tend to be context dependent, and are often one-off, only needed when a significant change gets made to the system. And to complicate the matter, many users have local changes to the system. It would be nice if the scripts we shipped with the system were designed to respect those local changes (though there's obviously only so much you can do).
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>It's hard to get right. It would be nice if someone managed to do it in a simple, maintainable, and reliable way.
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>On June 12, 2024 1:10:48 PM EDT, Thomas Nemeth <tnemeth@free.fr> wrote:
>>Le mercredi 12 juin 2024 15:04:59 CEST, vous avez écrit :
>>> specifically, sometimes there are some dependencies between
>>> programs or libraries that require some additonal steps to
>>> fix bootstrapping issues -- for example, a new instruction
>>> added to the compiler/linker and used in libc needs the new
>>> compilers and linkers to be installed before building the
>>> rest of the system.
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>>    Can't the rootstub script handle that ?
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fwiw, this was all discussed at the dawn of 9front and rejected as being too complicated to bother with. opinions may have changed, but it's good to reiterate that it's not as simple as writing a one liner.

sl