On Tue, Oct 16, 2018 at 08:08:27PM +0200, Tobias Platen wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> When I try to compile GUIX for POWER9 an old version of GCC is used.
> How do I use the gcc version used for cross compiling.
> 
> ./pre-inst-env guix build --target=powerpc64le-linux hello
> 
> checking if powerpc64le-linux-gcc supports
> binary128 floating point type... no
> checking if the target machine is at least POWER8... yes
> 
> configure: error: ***
> binary128 floating point type (GCC >= 6.2) is required on powerpc64le.
> 
> Tobias "Tomoko" Platen
> 

I'd recommend starting by editing gnu/packages/make-bootstrap.scm:103
and change the line:
`(("cross-gcc"      ,(cross-gcc target
to:
`(("cross-gcc"      ,(cross-gcc target #:gcc-6

there are other places, like lines 110 and 391 (and possibly others) which
should be turned to (inherit gcc-6)

That should work for this round, then you can decide if it's worth
upstreaming and wrap it in 'match' keywords for some of the newer
architectures (like riskv).

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