A fully reproducible C toolchain rooted on POSIX shell

[Simon Josefsson]

Laurent Huberdeau <laurenthuberd at gmail.com> writes:

> Hi everyone,
>
> I recently finished my master's thesis[0] arguing for the use of POSIX
> shell for diverse double-compilation and reproducible builds. It also
> presents pnut[1], a C compiler capable of bootstrapping itself and TCC
> (Linux i386) exclusively from any POSIX-compliant shell (bash, ksh, dash,
> zsh, etc.) and human-readable source files.
>
> Curious to hear your thoughts!

Wow, that is really impressive!  I'm looking into packaging for Debian,
maybe this could be part of a bootstrap build of Debian.  But can it
build TCC or not?  The README suggests yes but
https://github.com/udem-dlteam/pnut/issues/63 suggests no, although it
may be old.

/Simon
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