[haiku-development] Re: Haiku self-hosting.

  • From: "Dennis d'Entremont" <dennis.dentremont@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Tue, 1 Apr 2008 16:36:41 -0300

On Tue, Apr 1, 2008 at 12:54 PM, Bruno Albuquerque <bga@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> Sorry for the cross-posting, but as it is good news I thought I would
> share it with you guys. Today I committed r24720 and, with that, I was
> able to compile Haiku inside itself without the neewd for any hacks or
> reboots or anything like that (using VMWare with 1 Gb of memory
> available to the VM). I also run the generated image in VMWare and it
> booted (I didn't test it much tough).
>
> Although this is April's 1st (and some of you will probably think it is
> a joke), this means that we are able to self-host now and pending
> something else that we may find during testing, this means we are
> self-hosting as of today.
>
> You can start the fireworks! :)
>
> -Bruno
>
> Ps: Juts wnated to point out that this would not be possible without the
> huge amount of time the developers have spent on getting this working
> and, specifically, the amount of time Axel spent fixing VM/cache bugs
> and the amount Ingo spent getting the build system working inside Haiku.
> So kudos to them.
>
>
>
That is the best news that I've heard in a long time. Thanks for all the
hard work folks!

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