Can the parameter -b BootstrappingValeCompiler be ignored?

[Ashvith10]

I'm trying to write a Nix derivation to try out Vale for myself. I'm taking references from the shell script written for Ubuntu, and I've come across this prerequisites script with the "-b" flag taking in the value "BootstrappingValeCompiler", presumably for the older version of Vale compiler. Is this needed? Can I skip this? I don't want to deal with having to ELF-patch, as I've never done it before.

[Verdagon]

It probably is needed, as the vale compiler is partially self-hosting, it will need an old version of the vale compiler.

There is a way to run the compiler without the self-hosted parts, but it's quite in-depth and could be a bit tricky. I'm not sure if anyone but me can do that, and my schedule's pretty packed for the next few weeks. I'll leave this issue open because it would be nice to have a script to do just that, now that you mention that.

[Ashvith10]

@Verdagon I was able to use autoPatchelfHook to make the pre-builtvalec binaries for Ubuntu run on my system, but it looks like there's hardly any output.

No arguments

./result/bin/valec
Must specify a command (build or help).
(panic)

build as argument

./result/bin/valec build
Unable to find program java.
(panic)

help as argument

./result/bin/valec help
<empty>

version as argument

./result/bin/valec version
<empty again>