“A Fully Reproducible C Toolchain Rooted on POSIX Shell”, master thesis by Laurent Huberdeau:
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Interesting take on #bootstrapping, using POSIX shell as a base layer “taken for granted”.
I have my doubts on the argument of “readable shell code”:
… but it remains pretty cool.
(Seen on the #bootstrapping IRC channel.)
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Ludovic Courtès (@civodul@toot.aquilenet.fr)
I also wonder what makes the authors think “pnut can bootstrap these binaries in fewer steps and less code to audit”.
The “readable shell”...
