Re: Why do we not cross-compile bootstrap binaries?

[Chris Marusich]

address@hidden (Ludovic Courtès) writes:

> Hello,
>
> In practice, apart from x86_64-linux which was bootstrapped on NixOS, we
> always cross-compile to bootstrap new architectures:
>
>   https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/manual/html_node/Porting.html
>
> That was the case for all the non-Intel arches and for GNU/Hurd.
>
> Is that what you meant?

My question was more about: why do we check in bootstrap binaries for
different architectures, instead of checking in bootstrap binaries for
one "base" architecture and then generating the bootstrap binaries for
other architectures from that "base" architecture.  I think Efraim's
answer confirmed my understanding, which is that basically we want to
avoid treating any single platform as special.

Thank you for the reply!

-- 
Chris

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