bug#48055: Statically-linked packages fail to build on powerpc64le-linux

[Efraim Flashner <efraim@flashner.co.il>]

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On Tue, Apr 27, 2021 at 01:44:03PM +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
> Efraim Flashner <efraim@flashner.co.il> skribis:
> 
> > On Tue, Apr 27, 2021 at 09:27:45AM +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
> >> As of current master (d904abe0768293b2322dbf355b6e41d94e769d78),
> >> statically-linked packages required by ‘bootstrap-tarballs’ fail to
> >> build on powerpc64le-linux.  For example:
> 
> [...]
> 
> > What version of GCC is being used? Perhaps the gcc in make-bootstrap.scm
> > needs to be told to use 128-bit long longs.
> 
> D’oh, for /gnu/store/qr6wzh818417zmswip1nlf6jglyp7fh2-bzip2-1.0.8.drv
> for instance, it’s GCC 5.  How come?

We keep versions that are known to work. I guess we can bump it to
gcc-7, we'll just have to test all the other architectures. Or we can
just bump it for powerpc64le. There's a reason why %guile-static is
still guile-2.0.

> Indeed, make-bootstrap.scm refers to ‘gcc-5’ everywhere.  We should
> change it to match ‘gcc-final’, no?  (That probably won’t make it into
> ‘version-1.3.0’ but we can do that on ‘master’.)

Yeah. make-bootstrap is going to come in handy again when we get around
to riscv64. It might just be easier to let whoever ends up working on
that to mess with it then.

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