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From: Thiago Jung Bauermann via Bug reports for GNU Guix <bug-guix@gnu.org>
To: Maxime Devos <maximedevos@telenet.be>,
	Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer@gmail.com>
Cc: 52411@debbugs.gnu.org, Jan Nieuwenhuizen <janneke@gnu.org>
Subject: bug#52411: [core-updates-frozen] kmod-29 build fails, cross-compiled for i586-pc-gnu
Date: Sat, 18 Dec 2021 01:42:53 -0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <2150305.bgRPiZMkaZ@popigai> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <874k765z7f.fsf@gmail.com>

Hello,

Em sábado, 18 de dezembro de 2021, às 01:11:48 -03, Maxim Cournoyer 
escreveu:
> > I think I might have found the issue. The following commit made the
> > existence/absence 'kmod' input of pciutils depend on %current-
> > system/%current-target-system:
> > 
> > https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git/commit/?id=22ee7209797c023b9
> > 5e22ced156df62cbff90184
> > 
> > but it forgot to keep in mind that nix systems != triplets.
> > Instead of %current-target-system, the 'current-target-nix-system'
> > from ‘https://issues.guix.gnu.org/49672#3’ needs to be used
> > (or the hurd-target? procedure).
> 
> Looking more closely, I don't see an issue with the current conditional
> seleciting kmod?  nix systems != triplets, but in this case, the
> conditional is seldom dealing with nix systems, it seems.  Am I missing
> something?
> 
> *** time passes ... reads sources ***
> 
> Ah!  per (guix utils), it seems like %current-system is a nix system,
> while %current-target-system is a GNU triplet.  Confusing!

Guix’s usage of GNU triplets in some places and nix systems in others is a 
footgun. IMHO we should choose one format and use it everywhere we can, 
converting to the other if necessary...

-- 
Thanks,
Thiago






  reply	other threads:[~2021-12-18  4:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-12-10 12:55 bug#52411: [core-updates-frozen] kmod-29 build fails, cross-compiled for i586-pc-gnu Maxim Cournoyer
2021-12-10 17:48 ` Maxime Devos
2021-12-10 17:55   ` Maxime Devos
2021-12-16 19:02     ` Maxim Cournoyer
2021-12-18  4:11     ` Maxim Cournoyer
2021-12-18  4:42       ` Thiago Jung Bauermann via Bug reports for GNU Guix [this message]
2022-01-17 17:13         ` Maxim Cournoyer

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