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Re:NixOS Reproducible Builds: minimal ISO successfully indep... by Thrir94994i on Sunday October 29, 2023 @08:45AM (#38058054)
357 bytes for bootstrap compiler binary is VERY impressive!
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Re:NixOS Reproducible Builds: minimal ISO successfully indep... by msm_ on Sunday October 29, 2023 @10:12AM (#38058828)
If I remember correctly, this tiny binary is used to (reproducibly) bootstrap the next binary, which bootstraps the next binary, until eventually GCC can be compiled (and compile other software).
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Re:NixOS Reproducible Builds: minimal ISO successfully indep... by Smaug123 on Sunday October 29, 2023 @10:15AM (#38058853)
The bootstrap chain is https://github.com/oriansj/stage0-posix-x86/blob/e86bf7d304b...
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Re:NixOS Reproducible Builds: minimal ISO successfully indep... by rssoconnor on Sunday October 29, 2023 @11:29AM (#38059486)
To be fair, it is 357 bytes ... plus a POSIX operating system.

Still, that POSIX operating system bit is also being worked on.

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Re:NixOS Reproducible Builds: minimal ISO successfully indep... by 6581 on Sunday October 29, 2023 @12:26PM (#38060101)
Isn't that what builder-hex0 does?

https://github.com/ironmeld/builder-hex0

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