From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: John Darrington Subject: Re: wip-arm Date: Sat, 29 Nov 2014 07:37:42 +0100 Message-ID: <20141129063742.GA23329@jocasta.intra> References: <20141126162132.GA8669@jocasta.intra> <87fvd4n5lb.fsf@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="wRRV7LY7NUeQGEoC" Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:57182) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XubfH-000178-Fg for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 29 Nov 2014 01:37:59 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xubf7-0006E3-Uk for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 29 Nov 2014 01:37:55 -0500 Received: from de.cellform.com ([88.217.224.109]:42111 helo=jocasta.intra) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xubf7-0006Cz-Hf for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 29 Nov 2014 01:37:45 -0500 Received: from jocasta.intra (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by jocasta.intra (8.14.4/8.14.4/Debian-4) with ESMTP id sAT6bgE6023360 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 bits=256 verify=NOT) for ; Sat, 29 Nov 2014 07:37:42 +0100 Received: (from john@localhost) by jocasta.intra (8.14.4/8.14.4/Submit) id sAT6bgWM023359 for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 29 Nov 2014 07:37:42 +0100 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <87fvd4n5lb.fsf@gnu.org> List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: guix-devel@gnu.org --wRRV7LY7NUeQGEoC Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, Nov 27, 2014 at 02:19:44PM +0100, Ludovic Court??s wrote: John Darrington skribis: =20 > It contains the start of a port to an Arm architecture. Currently > it hasn't got very far unfortunately. =20 It allow you to cross-build the bootstrap tarballs for ARM, right? =20 Does anyone know the next step? The bootstrap tarballs are insufficient to natively build guix on the targe= t machine. And I have been unable to build a version of Guile which is up to the job -= they all have one problem or another. The Porting section in the manual says that I must "update" some files and = return the "right=20 name" and that it must be "taught about the new platform". Can anyone elab= orate on this? How do I know what parts of the files must be updated? Which name is "righ= t" and how do I "teach" it about the new platform? J' --=20 PGP Public key ID: 1024D/2DE827B3=20 fingerprint =3D 8797 A26D 0854 2EAB 0285 A290 8A67 719C 2DE8 27B3 See http://sks-keyservers.net or any PGP keyserver for public key. --wRRV7LY7NUeQGEoC Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: Digital signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAlR5abYACgkQimdxnC3oJ7NNeQCbBozQDdUpqdSt6xZVODFaJc5m Q5EAn2n3eiEJM0e8VPM7RUPsFpQlTj0T =subC -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --wRRV7LY7NUeQGEoC--