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doc: Update bootstrap-related info in `HACKING'.

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Ludovic Courtès 2013-06-09 15:24:24 +02:00
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@ -142,7 +142,7 @@ problem? Chicken-and-egg.
To break that cycle, the distro starts from a set of pre-built To break that cycle, the distro starts from a set of pre-built
binaries–usually referred to as “bootstrap binaries.” These include binaries–usually referred to as “bootstrap binaries.” These include
statically-linked versions of Guile, GCC, Coreutils, Make, Grep, sed, statically-linked versions of Guile, GCC, Coreutils, Grep, sed,
etc., and the GNU C Library. etc., and the GNU C Library.
This section describes how to build those bootstrap binaries when This section describes how to build those bootstrap binaries when
@ -154,7 +154,7 @@ In that case, the easiest thing is to bootstrap the distro using
binaries from Nixpkgs. binaries from Nixpkgs.
To do that, you need to comment out the definitions of To do that, you need to comment out the definitions of
‘%bootstrap-guile’ and ‘%bootstrap-inputs’ in distro/packages/bootstrap.scm ‘%bootstrap-guile’ and ‘%bootstrap-inputs’ in gnu/packages/bootstrap.scm
to force the use of Nixpkgs derivations. For instance, when porting to to force the use of Nixpkgs derivations. For instance, when porting to
‘i686-linux’, you should redefine these variables along these lines: ‘i686-linux’, you should redefine these variables along these lines:
@ -190,10 +190,10 @@ These should build tarballs containing statically-linked tools usable on
that system. that system.
In the source tree, you need to install binaries for ‘mkdir’, ‘bash’, In the source tree, you need to install binaries for ‘mkdir’, ‘bash’,
‘tar’, and ‘xz’ under ‘distro/packages/bootstrap/i686-linux’. These ‘tar’, and ‘xz’ under ‘gnu/packages/bootstrap/i686-linux’. These
binaries can be extracted from the static-binaries tarball built above. binaries can be extracted from the static-binaries tarball built above.
A rule for ‘distro/packages/bootstrap/i686-linux/guile-2.0.7.tar.xz’ A rule for ‘gnu/packages/bootstrap/i686-linux/guile-2.0.7.tar.xz’
needs to be added in ‘Makefile.am’, with the appropriate hexadecimal needs to be added in ‘Makefile.am’, with the appropriate hexadecimal
vrepresentation of its SHA256 hash. vrepresentation of its SHA256 hash.