Re: Bootstrapping from binary blob shipped in the source package
"John Alfred Nathanael Chee" <[email protected]>
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On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 2:09 PM, Wesley J. Landaker <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sunday 20 July 2008 03:40:21 Marco d'Itri wrote: >> [email protected] wrote: >> >> Some packages (notably compilers) avoid cyclic build dependencies by >> >> shipping some sort of pre-compiled blob in the source package. This >> >> blob is then used to compile the package. >> >> >> >> Does this fullfil the requirement that packages in main must be built >> >> from source code? >> > >> >Is there really no interest in this topic? >> >> There is nothing wrong with using a precompiled compiler to bootstrap >> the package in Debian, but after there is a working package in the >> archive it should not be used anymore (for reliability issues, not >> freedom issues). >> And anyway, a working binary program is not a "pre-compiled blob". > > What about a binary blob that, when executed, prints out the C source code > that was used to compile it? ;) http://www.nyx.net/~gthompso/quine.htm -- Love in Jesus Christ, John Alfred Nathanael Chee, KE7ERW http://www.sunsetpres.org/ http://www.biblegateway.com/