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Holy shit! Mes now compiles tinycc which compiles gcc!
lists.gnu.org/archive/html/gui

The fully reproducible system is nearly upon us!

@cwebber I think you might mean bootstrapable, rather than reproducible...

Christopher Lemmer Webber @cwebber

@cbaines Yes, but they're intertwined. If you can't fully bootstrap the system, you can't *really* reproduce it. ;)

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@cwebber that makes sense. I guess when I think of *fully* reproducible, I think of a list like this tests.reproducible-builds.org/

On the reproducibility axis, I think the degree of success relates to how well the variations which are introduced are handled.

@cbaines @cwebber Debian uses documented variations as a workaround for the lack of a reproducible build environment, whereas guix tries to make the build environment more reproducible, and the output bit-for-bit identical between build runs.