From: Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net>
To: swedebugia <swedebugia@riseup.net>
Cc: "33841@debbugs.gnu.org" <33841@debbugs.gnu.org>
Subject: bug#33841: Building x86-64 on i686 not possible it seems - activation-service-error
Date: Sun, 06 Jan 2019 04:46:09 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <875zv2sb26.fsf@elephly.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <10F7A02C-46C5-49E4-819D-63A2CDAF7EB2@pretty.Easy.privacy>
Hi swedebugia,
>>An i686 machine cannot run and build software for x86_64. You would
>>need to set up offloading to do that, or use
>>‘qemu-binfmt-service-type’.
[…]
> OK. Would it be OK to state this somewhere in the manual or am I the
> only on trying to upgrade from 32->64 bit?
I'd prefer not to add this to the manual as it is not particular to
Guix. x86_64 is the outlier here, as it has a i686 persona. Generally,
you cannot build software for a different architecture without a cross
toolchain (not applicable for Guix) or emulation (e.g. via
qemu-binfmt-service-type).
--
Ricardo
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-01-06 3:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-12-23 5:04 bug#33841: Building x86-64 on i686 not possible it seems - activation-service-error swedebugia
2018-12-23 5:07 ` swedebugia
2019-01-05 17:18 ` Ludovic Courtès
2019-01-06 3:11 ` swedebugia
2019-01-06 3:46 ` Ricardo Wurmus [this message]
2019-01-06 10:34 ` swedebugia
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