> From: openbeos-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > [mailto:openbeos-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Bruno Albuquerque > Sent: Tuesday, April 01, 2008 10:55 AM > To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx; openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: [openbeos] Haiku self-hosting. > > 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. Absolutely great news--it makes my day! Thanks for the update, Bruno. Everyone who has been involved should give themselves a pat on the back, you deserve it! :) Regards, Jonathon