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#52311 Flex and Bison are not built from source

Package	Source(s)		Maintainer(s)
guix		PTS Buildd Popcon

Reported by Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>
Date 2021-12-05T18:09:08
Severity important

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Report forwarded to bug-guix@gnu.org:
bug#52311; Package guix. (Sun, 05 Dec 2021 18:09:08 GMT) (full text, mbox, link).

Acknowledgement sent to Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>:
New bug report received and forwarded. Copy sent to bug-guix@gnu.org. (Sun, 05 Dec 2021 18:09:08 GMT) (full text, mbox, link).

Message #5 received at submit@debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox, reply):

Hello Guix!

As stikonas (Andrius Štikonas) rightfully pointed out on #guix, Flex and
Bison are currently not entirely built from source in Guix: their source
tarballs contain Flex- and/or Bison-generated files.

The problem and a solution are described here:

  https://gitlab.com/giomasce/nbs/

The “live-bootstrap” project also implements a multi-stage bootstrap:

  https://github.com/fosslinux/live-bootstrap/blob/master/sysa/heirloom-devtools-070527/heirloom-devtools-070527.kaem
  https://github.com/fosslinux/live-bootstrap/blob/master/sysa/flex-2.5.11/flex-2.5.11.sh
  https://github.com/fosslinux/live-bootstrap/blob/master/sysa/flex-2.6.4/flex-2.6.4.sh
  https://github.com/fosslinux/live-bootstrap/tree/master/sysa/bison-3.4.1

Let’s follow their lead on the next core-updates cycle.

Thanks stikonas for the links!

Ludo’.

Severity set to 'important' from 'normal' Request was from Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> to control@debbugs.gnu.org. (Mon, 06 Dec 2021 13:11:02 GMT) (full text, mbox, link).

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