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start documenting bootstrapping the static initial stdenv

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Creating a new static stdenv
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When Nix is ported to a new (Linux) platform and you want to have a completely
pure setup for the stdenv (for example for NixOS) it is necessary to rebuild
the static tools.

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- tools/text/gnupatch-diet
- tools/misc/findutils-static
and
- development/compilers/gcc-static-3.4
Most packages are compiled with dietlibc, an alternate C library, apart
from bash and findutils, which are statically linked to glibc. The reason
we chose dietlibc has various reasons. First of all, curl cannot be built