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> Jay, your assembly worked too! And as you say, it's much easier to<BR>
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As an /experiment/ you might try building that assembly yourself?<BR>
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First you need to cd to m3cc and cm3 -DM3CC_TARGET=foo.<BR>
My config files probe around for the correct seeming m3cg and use it.<BR>
And then scripts/python/boot1.py foo.<BR>
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The point of the "experiment" would be see if anyone else can produce these "bootstrap" archives, as a possible first toward elevating their status -- ie: using them as a form of distribution.<BR>
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But not clear if they should be or not -- to what extent os /version/ is a problem and to what extent it should be dealt with, and if that should be via building on the various hosts or these "bootstrap" archives, or something else.<BR>
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You know, ideally, maybe, given time/energy, there'd be regulary produced (daily) "bootstrap" archives for "all" the platforms, "min", and "std". Including maybe even a cm3cg..though that cm3cg would be "Canadian" and seems maybe a dubious thing to depend on working regularly.<BR>
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So, while we might output binary distributions for various "current" platforms, these could be fallbacks for other older/newer versions.<BR>
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As well, esp. if the Canadian cm3cg worked out, these could even be the real distributions -- benefit being that they can all be cross built from one or a few machines -- without having to automate each host platform. Though maybe that's too much to do on one machine.<BR>
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