bug#36747: Official MesCC bootstrap binaries differ from my locally built ones

[Jan Nieuwenhuizen]

Mark H Weaver writes:

Hi Mark,

>> I called that `wip-binaries', @master from three weeks ago.
>
> Thank you, that was a good start.  I found that some additional patches
> were needed to match the bootstrap binaries that 'core-updates' is
> currently based on.
>
> I ended up deleting and repushing a revised 'wip-binaries' to Savannah.
> It includes slightly modified versions of the two commits you had
> included, as well as some additional cherry-picked commits of yours to
> update mescc-tools and add linux-libre-headers-bootstrap-tarball, and a
> few of my own.

Very nice.

> I built the new bootstrap tarballs at the new 'wip-binaries', commit
> c67becb31c30a5cd7685f166970ac4793e3a34a9, and here's what I got:
>
> mhw@jojen ~/guix-wip-binaries$ git describe
> v1.0.1-2404-gc67becb31c
> mhw@jojen ~/guix-wip-binaries$ ./pre-inst-env guix build --system=i686-linux 
> bootstrap-tarballs
> /gnu/store/bg086i2qw1fn2jgbd15d9v91hyjrjsb2-bootstrap-tarballs-0
> mhw@jojen ~/guix-wip-binaries$ cd 
> /gnu/store/bg086i2qw1fn2jgbd15d9v91hyjrjsb2-bootstrap-tarballs-0
> mhw@jojen /gnu/store/bg086i2qw1fn2jgbd15d9v91hyjrjsb2-bootstrap-tarballs-0$ 
> sha256sum *
> 3e50c070a100b6bcf84c4bf5c868f9cd0a9fd1570f5d82fbfb78f8411959091b  
> guile-static-stripped-2.2.4-i686-linux.tar.xz
> 1acd8f83e27d2fac311a5ca78e9bf11a9a1638b82469870d5c854c4e7afaa26a  
> linux-libre-headers-stripped-4.14.67-i686-linux.tar.xz
> 021543d9bb6af55f39e68d69692e3cb74646ced2cad0bb9ac0047ef81e9d7330  
> mescc-tools-static-stripped-0.5.2-0.bb062b0-i686-linux.tar.xz
> fb32090071b39fc804fb9a7fba96f0bc5eb844a0efd268fb24c42e6bfa959de0  
> mes-minimal-stripped-0.19-i686-linux.tar.xz
> c80cdd17b0a24eebdd75570ff72c4ec06e129bd702ac008186b57f6301c448e7  
> static-binaries-0-i686-linux.tar.xz

> Can you try "guix build --system=i686-linux bootstrap-tarballs" at the
> new 'wip-binaries' branch and see if you get the same results?

Yes, on c67becb31c30a5cd7685f166970ac4793e3a34a9 running
"./pre-inst-env guix build --system=i686-linux bootstrap-tarballs" gives me 
exactly this,
also for guile-static-stripped! \o/

> Also, I have a question: One of the changes I made to 'wip-binaries' was
> to update mescc-tools to 0.5.2-0.bb062b0, to match the
> %bootstrap-mescc-tools that's currently being used in 'core-updates'.
>
> However, I noticed that you have also apparently built the official
> release of mescc-tools-0.5.2, which is on your site:
>
>   
> http://lilypond.org/janneke/guix/20190722/mescc-tools-static-stripped-0.5.2-i686-linux.tar.xz
>
> and that this tarball is identical to the build output of the later git
> commit: mescc-tools-static-stripped-0.5.2-0.bb062b0-i686-linux.tar.xz.
>
> With this in mind, could we just use 0.5.2?  What changed between 0.5.2
> and 0.5.2-0.bb062b0, and what was the rationale for updating to bb062b0?

Good catch.  We probably can, we might try that.

I think the need for updating to bb062b0 has been removed during the
review of the integration of the reduced binary seed bootstrap into
core-updates by Ludovic.

For historical reasons, I think this mescc-tools commit

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commit c184e95096881a13f29ebd7fc507fe305d3d8de5 (gitlab/janneke, janneke)
Author: Jan Nieuwenhuizen <address@hidden>
Date:   Thu Oct 4 22:03:31 2018 +0200

    build.sh: Update for mes 0.18.
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was needed at a time that we did not have mescc-tools or mes in
bootstrap tarballs.  We built bootstrap variants of mescc-tools and mes
using a externally (outside fo Guix) built mescc-tools-seed and
(an almost pure ASCII) mes-seed.

Greetings,
janneke

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