- Rather than using part-by-part build of Binutils, use autogen and full
./configure, make build.
- Enable some other modern features, including the gold linker, threaded
linking and 64-bit linking.
- This allows GCC 12 to build unhindered by binutils.
The motivations for this are complicated, but on musl systems, musl
will use its own libssp implementation, so GCC's libssp is not required.
Not to mention that GCC's libssp implementation is questionable at best.
This is the approach taken by the two major musl distributions - Alpine
Linux and Void Linux.
By using --cores argument to rootfs.py, JOBS= is set in the
live-bootstrap environment, and -j${JOBS} is used on builds. This speeds
larger packages up significantly.
A fair number of packages do not build properly with parallelism. Most
of these, at least for now, are disabled with -j1.
This is achieved by transplanting 3.0.7's psyntax-pp.scm into 3.0.9
which works flawlessly.
This is required for parallelism, since <3.0.8 is irreproducible when
-jN is used.
The source tarball is provided as part of sysa distfiles and copied to sysc, which resolves the issue of finding a reliable plain HTTP mirror for curl.
Splitted from https://github.com/fosslinux/live-bootstrap/pull/253.
--with-sysroot removal is insufficient.
There is bad behaviour somewhere that causes --with-sysroot=no as the
default, and then sysroot to be set to 'no'. In reality, we should have
literally no sysroot; so set --with-sysroot=
This option is erroneous and only worked by chance.
sysroot is prepended to all library search paths when working correctly,
eg, /usr/lib turns into /usr/usr/lib when --with-sysroot=/usr.
Environment variables "pollute" the build environment of packages and
can affect their output.
This change results in the removal of some files from packages that
were not meant to be packaged. It also removes the need for a
workaround in automake 1.10.3 to manually remove such files.
Variables are now saved in an .env file for each system and included
in scripts that need them using the dot operation.