Hi, Sorry, if this message is a little bit out of order, I only just subscribed to the pacman-dev group. I want to raise the issue of bootstrapping: - automake, autoconf, libtool and friends need m4 and perl and bash - meson needs python Bootstrapping m4 and perl is comparatively easy to bootstrapping python. Porting to other architectures is easier if there are not too many dependencies. See also my experiments here: https://git.archlinux32.org/archlinux32/bootstrap32 and some porting work from oaken-source (Parabola): https://github.com/oaken-source/parabola-riscv64-bootstrap Cheers Andreas -- Andreas Baumann Trottenstrasse 20 CH-8037 Zuerich Telefon: +41(0)76/373 01 29 E-mail: mail@andreasbaumann.cc Homepage: www.andreasbaumann.cc