Jan Nieuwenhuizen
2018-10-07 15:18:54 UTC
We are pleased to announce the release of GNU Mes 0.18, representing
83 commits over 8 weeks.
Mes is now bringing a Reduced Binary Seed bootstrap to GuixSD; the
size of bootstrap binaries has been halved and no regular toolchain
binaries are used as binary seeds (i686-linux and x86_64-linux only).
MesCC has been refactored to use an abstracted assembly language and
can now (cross-)build x86_64 binaries.
Next targets:
- reduce the 1MB ASCII M1 seed to ~5000 LOC/~100KB of M2 source
- revive Gash/Geesh and use it to decimate the remaining bootstrap
binary seeds
- and/or otherwise reduce the bootstrap binaries
- ARM, the Hurd?
Packages are available from Guix's core-updates-next branch.
* About
GNU Mes[0] brings a Reduced Binary Seed bootstrap[1] to GuixSD[2] and
potentially to any other interested GNU/Linux distribution, and aims
to help create a full source bootstrap as part of the
bootstrappable builds[3] effort.
It consists of a mutual self-hosting Scheme interpreter written in
~5,000 LOC of simple C and a Nyacc-based C compiler written in Scheme.
This mes.c is being simplified[4] to be transpiled by M2-Planet[5].
The Scheme interpreter (mes.c) has a Garbage Collector, a library of
loadable Scheme modules-- notably Dominique Boucher's LALR[6], Pre-R6RS
[portable syntax-case[7] with R7RS ellipsis, Matt Wette's Nyacc[8] --and test
suite just barely enough to support a simple REPL and simple
C-compiler: MesCC.
Mes+MesCC can compile an only lightly patched TinyCC[9] that is
self-hosting. Using this tcc and the Mes C library we now have a
Reduced Binary Seed bootstrap for the gnutools triplet: glibc-2.2.5,
binutils-2.20.1, gcc-2.95.3. This is enough to bootstrap GuixSD for
i686-linux and x86_64-linux.
Mes is inspired by The Maxwell Equations of Software: LISP-1.5[10] -- John
McCarthy page 13, GNU Guix's source/binary packaging transparency and
Jeremiah Orians's stage0[11] ~500 byte self-hosting hex assembler.
* Download
git clone git://git.savannah.gnu.org/mes.git
Here are the compressed sources and a GPG detached signature[*]:
https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/mes/mes-0.18.tar.gz
https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/mes/mes-0.18.tar.gz.sig
Use a mirror for higher download bandwidth:
https://ftpmirror.gnu.org/mes/mes-0.18.tar.gz
https://ftpmirror.gnu.org/mes/mes-0.18.tar.gz.sig
Here are the MD5 and SHA1 checksums:
f9f901f175fbc8a5a3d90c9c551ccc8c mes-0.18.tar.gz
4f7612731a745ebb806548186453d55e0d0bf217 mes-0.18.tar.gz
[*] Use a .sig file to verify that the corresponding file (without the
.sig suffix) is intact. First, be sure to download both the .sig file
and the corresponding tarball. Then, run a command like this:
gpg --verify mes-0.18.tar.gz.sig
If that command fails because you don't have the required public key,
then run this command to import it:
gpg --keyserver keys.gnupg.net --recv-keys 1A858392E331EAFDB8C27FFBF3C1A0D9C1D65273
and rerun the 'gpg --verify' command.
Mes runs from the source tree and can also be built, packaged and
installed in Guix[SD] from a git checkout by running
guix package -f .guix.scm
* Get informed, get involved
Join #bootstrappable on irc.freenode.net.
* Changes in 0.18 since 0.17.1
** Core
*** Mes/MesCC now supports x86_64.
*** Mes/MesCC now brings a Reduced Binary Seed bootstrap to GuixSD.
** Language
*** fold-right now supports 3 lists.
** MesCC
*** MesCC now supports x86_64 (also as cross build), using -m 64.
*** Mes C Library now has better support for bootstrapping gcc-3.0.
*** Mes C test suite now has 178 tests; 74 tests were added.
*** MesCC has been refactored to support use an abstracted assembly language.
*** MesCC now uses Nyacc 0.86.0.
** Noteworthy bug fixes
*** scaffold/tests/7s-struct-short.c has been fixed.
* Changes in 0.17.1 since 0.17
** MesCC
*** Mes C Library has now been exploded into a separate C file per function.
*** Mes C Library now bootstraps glibc-2.16.0, binutils-2.20.1, gcc-4.7.4.
*** Mes C Library now supports compiling make-3.82.
*** Mes C Library now supports compiling diffutils-2.7.
*** Mes C Library now supports x86_64.
**** 7 new functions
chdir, clock_gettime, closedir, execl, opendir, readdir, time.
**** 5 new stubs
getlogin, setlocale, setvbuf, sigaddset, sigblock.
** Noteworthy bug fixes
*** qsort can now handle lists with duplicate entries.
Greetings,
janneke
[0] https://www.gnu.org/software/mes
[1] http://joyofsource.com/reduced-binary-seed-bootstrap.html
[2] https://www.gnu.org/software/guix
[3] https://bootstrappable.org
[4] https://github.com/oriansj/mes-m2
[5] https://github.com/oriansj/m2-planet
[6] https://github.com/schemeway/lalr-scm
[7] https://www.cs.indiana.edu/chezscheme/syntax-case/old-psyntax.html
[8] https://www.nongnu.org/nyacc
[9] https://gitlab.com/janneke/tinycc
[10] http://www.softwarepreservation.org/projects/LISP/book/LISP%201.5%20Programmers%20Manual.pdf
[11] https://github.com/oriansj/stage0
83 commits over 8 weeks.
Mes is now bringing a Reduced Binary Seed bootstrap to GuixSD; the
size of bootstrap binaries has been halved and no regular toolchain
binaries are used as binary seeds (i686-linux and x86_64-linux only).
MesCC has been refactored to use an abstracted assembly language and
can now (cross-)build x86_64 binaries.
Next targets:
- reduce the 1MB ASCII M1 seed to ~5000 LOC/~100KB of M2 source
- revive Gash/Geesh and use it to decimate the remaining bootstrap
binary seeds
- and/or otherwise reduce the bootstrap binaries
- ARM, the Hurd?
Packages are available from Guix's core-updates-next branch.
* About
GNU Mes[0] brings a Reduced Binary Seed bootstrap[1] to GuixSD[2] and
potentially to any other interested GNU/Linux distribution, and aims
to help create a full source bootstrap as part of the
bootstrappable builds[3] effort.
It consists of a mutual self-hosting Scheme interpreter written in
~5,000 LOC of simple C and a Nyacc-based C compiler written in Scheme.
This mes.c is being simplified[4] to be transpiled by M2-Planet[5].
The Scheme interpreter (mes.c) has a Garbage Collector, a library of
loadable Scheme modules-- notably Dominique Boucher's LALR[6], Pre-R6RS
[portable syntax-case[7] with R7RS ellipsis, Matt Wette's Nyacc[8] --and test
suite just barely enough to support a simple REPL and simple
C-compiler: MesCC.
Mes+MesCC can compile an only lightly patched TinyCC[9] that is
self-hosting. Using this tcc and the Mes C library we now have a
Reduced Binary Seed bootstrap for the gnutools triplet: glibc-2.2.5,
binutils-2.20.1, gcc-2.95.3. This is enough to bootstrap GuixSD for
i686-linux and x86_64-linux.
Mes is inspired by The Maxwell Equations of Software: LISP-1.5[10] -- John
McCarthy page 13, GNU Guix's source/binary packaging transparency and
Jeremiah Orians's stage0[11] ~500 byte self-hosting hex assembler.
* Download
git clone git://git.savannah.gnu.org/mes.git
Here are the compressed sources and a GPG detached signature[*]:
https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/mes/mes-0.18.tar.gz
https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/mes/mes-0.18.tar.gz.sig
Use a mirror for higher download bandwidth:
https://ftpmirror.gnu.org/mes/mes-0.18.tar.gz
https://ftpmirror.gnu.org/mes/mes-0.18.tar.gz.sig
Here are the MD5 and SHA1 checksums:
f9f901f175fbc8a5a3d90c9c551ccc8c mes-0.18.tar.gz
4f7612731a745ebb806548186453d55e0d0bf217 mes-0.18.tar.gz
[*] Use a .sig file to verify that the corresponding file (without the
.sig suffix) is intact. First, be sure to download both the .sig file
and the corresponding tarball. Then, run a command like this:
gpg --verify mes-0.18.tar.gz.sig
If that command fails because you don't have the required public key,
then run this command to import it:
gpg --keyserver keys.gnupg.net --recv-keys 1A858392E331EAFDB8C27FFBF3C1A0D9C1D65273
and rerun the 'gpg --verify' command.
Mes runs from the source tree and can also be built, packaged and
installed in Guix[SD] from a git checkout by running
guix package -f .guix.scm
* Get informed, get involved
Join #bootstrappable on irc.freenode.net.
* Changes in 0.18 since 0.17.1
** Core
*** Mes/MesCC now supports x86_64.
*** Mes/MesCC now brings a Reduced Binary Seed bootstrap to GuixSD.
** Language
*** fold-right now supports 3 lists.
** MesCC
*** MesCC now supports x86_64 (also as cross build), using -m 64.
*** Mes C Library now has better support for bootstrapping gcc-3.0.
*** Mes C test suite now has 178 tests; 74 tests were added.
*** MesCC has been refactored to support use an abstracted assembly language.
*** MesCC now uses Nyacc 0.86.0.
** Noteworthy bug fixes
*** scaffold/tests/7s-struct-short.c has been fixed.
* Changes in 0.17.1 since 0.17
** MesCC
*** Mes C Library has now been exploded into a separate C file per function.
*** Mes C Library now bootstraps glibc-2.16.0, binutils-2.20.1, gcc-4.7.4.
*** Mes C Library now supports compiling make-3.82.
*** Mes C Library now supports compiling diffutils-2.7.
*** Mes C Library now supports x86_64.
**** 7 new functions
chdir, clock_gettime, closedir, execl, opendir, readdir, time.
**** 5 new stubs
getlogin, setlocale, setvbuf, sigaddset, sigblock.
** Noteworthy bug fixes
*** qsort can now handle lists with duplicate entries.
Greetings,
janneke
[0] https://www.gnu.org/software/mes
[1] http://joyofsource.com/reduced-binary-seed-bootstrap.html
[2] https://www.gnu.org/software/guix
[3] https://bootstrappable.org
[4] https://github.com/oriansj/mes-m2
[5] https://github.com/oriansj/m2-planet
[6] https://github.com/schemeway/lalr-scm
[7] https://www.cs.indiana.edu/chezscheme/syntax-case/old-psyntax.html
[8] https://www.nongnu.org/nyacc
[9] https://gitlab.com/janneke/tinycc
[10] http://www.softwarepreservation.org/projects/LISP/book/LISP%201.5%20Programmers%20Manual.pdf
[11] https://github.com/oriansj/stage0
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